What’s Driving the Youth Mental Health Crisis? We Asked 1,400 Clinicians.
“There are so many kids and teens in need of quality therapy, and not enough providers,” says the Politico article. The article goes on to say, “Anxiety and depression is spiking among young people, and no one knows why?”
I know why
Anyone with a basic understanding of human nature, who’s been paying attention for the last sixty years and has a grain of empathy, can tell you why. Clinicians are not those people. It’s like asking fire-fighters to define the causes of increases in arson. It’s not clinical, it’s societal. Treat the cause, not the result. I understand that’s not much help to a kid contemplating suicide, particularly if it’s your kid, but clinicians patch people up and have little knowledge of the cause of the accident.
And, by the way, a teacher, friend, neighbor, cop, shopkeeper, or stranger on the street can no longer hug a child in trouble
I blame a guy I voted for in 1980, Ronald Reagan
I was a 45-year-old Republican at the time and probably should have known better, but t…