Data from the British National Health Service (NHS) showed that between 1999 and 2017, the number of children below the age of 16 suffering from at least one mental disorder increased from 11.4% to 13.6%. Researcher interviewed older adolescents (aged 17–19) for the first time in 2017 and found that girls were two thirds more likely than younger girls and twice more likely than boys from the same age group to suffer from a mental disorder. In England, hospitalizations for self-harm doubled among teenage girls between 1997 and 2018, but there was no parallel development among boys. While the number of children receiving medical attention for mental health problems has clearly gone up, this is not necessarily an epidemic as the number of self-reports went up even faster possibly due to the diminution of stigma. Furthermore, doctors are more likely than before to diagnose a case of self-harm when previously they only treated the physical injuries.