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The short answer is not a single age. Mental health vulnerability rises and falls across the lifespan, but if you ask clinicians, researchers, school counselors, emergency psychiatrists, and families where they most often see problems first become visible, the answer tends to cluster around adolescence and young adulthood. That does not mean childhood is safe, or that midlife and older age bring no risk. It means the period from roughly the early teens into the mid-20s i