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Nearly Half of Americas Youth Have Untreated Mental Illness
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 332247" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Maybe I read this wrong- I liked the article, which seem to indicate that about half of those with mental illness are left unidentified/untreated. But the title makes it sound like nearly half of the youth in our country have a mental illness. I wouldn't agree with that statement because my presumption would be that most of those would fit criteria like ODD and/or ADHD and it's just my opinion that sometimes (not always), kids are diagnosis'd as having these when it really is just sd's and society's expectations are that active kids are supposed to sit still 8 hours a day or act like adults and it's just not going to happen. IOW, if 50% of kids are diagnosis's adhd or ODD, then I think something is wrong with the "norm" being used and the diagnosis'ing criteria.</p><p></p><p>But, as far as what the article said, unless I missed something, it's about 13% of youth with mental illness and that might be true. Also, I did like the fact that it pointed out many youth are sitting in class with anxiety and/or depression and because they aren't getting into trouble, they are not identified or helped. I think this is a big problem- it was definitely an issue with my son but unfortunately, I was not aware of it until after he did start acting out and breaking the law and I started gettting a lot more aggressive about finding out specifics of what exactly was going on at school.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 332247, member: 3699"] Maybe I read this wrong- I liked the article, which seem to indicate that about half of those with mental illness are left unidentified/untreated. But the title makes it sound like nearly half of the youth in our country have a mental illness. I wouldn't agree with that statement because my presumption would be that most of those would fit criteria like ODD and/or ADHD and it's just my opinion that sometimes (not always), kids are diagnosis'd as having these when it really is just sd's and society's expectations are that active kids are supposed to sit still 8 hours a day or act like adults and it's just not going to happen. IOW, if 50% of kids are diagnosis's adhd or ODD, then I think something is wrong with the "norm" being used and the diagnosis'ing criteria. But, as far as what the article said, unless I missed something, it's about 13% of youth with mental illness and that might be true. Also, I did like the fact that it pointed out many youth are sitting in class with anxiety and/or depression and because they aren't getting into trouble, they are not identified or helped. I think this is a big problem- it was definitely an issue with my son but unfortunately, I was not aware of it until after he did start acting out and breaking the law and I started gettting a lot more aggressive about finding out specifics of what exactly was going on at school. [/QUOTE]
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