Growing Up with Anxiety: Lena Dunham and Dr. Anne Marie Albano with Jenni Konner

Feb 07, 2017

Lena Dunham talks about her experience with anxiety and OCD, which began at a very young age. How did she learn to cope and overcome it? Why is the incidence of youth anxiety increasing so dramatically? What are some of the root causes and what can be done about it?

Lena joins The Youth Anxiety Center at NewYork-Presbyterian's Dr. Anne Marie Albano and moderator Jenni Konner, Lena's business partner (co-founder of their production company "A Casual Romance" and an imprint lennyletter.com and Executive producer of their HBO's series Girls) to discuss a problem facing millions of families.

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