Status of Women committee  Again, it's a great question. What Michelle is pointing to is the fact that our numbers are so overwhelming that we need to be thinking in terms of a universal approach. That's why she's itemized things like schools, or any organizations or parenting groups. What we have to do is develop methods that empower the child or empower the teen, methods for recognizing when they're overstressed, how to reduce that stress, how they can turn off that disparity I was talking about, the stress response, how they can experience calm, which is a forgotten thing these days, and finally, how they can restore it.

Status of Women committee  If I was going to give you one single message, it would be this. I've done this now my entire adult life. I've seen thousands and thousands of kids. I have never seen a bad kid. There isn't such a thing. If a kid is overstressed, it's a warning sign for us. This kid needs help, and we have to give it.

Status of Women committee  There are two really important points in what Michelle just said. The first one is that we do know, from studies we've done, that anyone who's working with children, teens and young adults today is extremely stressed. What we have found at all of the institutes we run is that we have to start off the first day dealing with their mental health needs, particularly as we work on something called self-regulation.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I can't help but feel that you must all be feeling a little bit overwhelmed by the absolutely frightening scope of the problems that we're facing with mental health of women and young girls today. I've been given the job of telling you—in five minutes—about an incredible neuroscientific revolution that we're going through.