US Teen Mental Health Crisis
Feb 15, 2023‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
Are you worried about your teen? You should be.I n 2019, 13 percent of adolescents reported having a major depressive episode, a 60 percent increase from 2007. And suicide rates, which had been stable from 2000 to 2007 among this group, leaped nearly 60 percent by 2018. The numbers for Teen Mental Health Crisis is startling and getting worse.
Depression, self-harm and suicide are rising among American adolescents. For one 13-year-old, the despair was almost too much to take.
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Almost half of children who go to ER with mental health crisis don’t get the follow-up care they need, study finds
Watch CNN's latest feature on the US Life & Death Teen Crisis
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“The most common problems that I see are children with suicidal thoughts or children with severe behavior problems, where they may be a risk of harm to themselves or others,” said Hoffmann, who works at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. “We’re also seeing younger children, especially since the pandemic started. Children as young as 8, 9 or 10 years old are coming to the emergency department with mental health concerns.
Research has shown that follow-up with a mental health care provider lowers a person’s suicide risk, raises the chances that they will take their prescription medicine and decreases the chances that they will make repeated trips to the ER.
The new study found that without a follow-up, more than a quarter of the children had to go back to the ER for additional mental health care within six months of their initial visit.
“The emergency department is a safety net. It’s always open, but there’s limited extent to the types of mental health services we can provide in that setting,” Hoffmann said. “This really speaks to inadequate access to services that these kids need.”
This dynamic can be “devastating” for parents and emergency department staff alike, she said.
“We know what a child needs, but we’re just not able to schedule follow-up due to shortages among the mental health profession. They’re widespread across the US,” she said.
So how can Saving Your Brain help?
Dr. Kelly Miller, NMD has worked closely with many families over the past four decades and expanded his Saving Your Brain facilities to help parents, families, children, and teens with advanced drug free therapies to reduce anxiousness, stress, and other symptoms associated with ADHD. But, it is really going beyond that now and our teens are suicidal and in serious trouble.
We are seeing a pandemic of mental health issues in our teens and our mission is to help them with the increased high anxiety, stress, brain fog, and neurological disorders. At Saving Your Brain, our children and teens go through a comprehensive assessment. We customize a brain training program and after school programs so they get the support and get off the medications often prescribed which lead to major side effects and addictive behaviors.
If your child or teen needs help, please contact Dr. Kelly Miller at Saving Your Brain for a consultation on how he can help address your mental health issues and let's make sure our children make it through this crisis.
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