Parents often bring children to psychiatric E.R.s to subdue them, according to a recent study analyzing more than 308,000 mental health visits at 38 hospitals between 2015 and 2020

I have a teenaged kid who was doing great until middle school and the last few years have been a nonstop mental health crises and it’s ridiculous how there’s no centralization or coordination of treatment. Diagnosis is just one stab in the dark and wait list after another. If your kid woke up one day and a limb wasn’t working right, they’d be fast tracked for every test and get treated right away. But if one day their brain stops working right, there isn’t even a clear path for getting a diagnosis, they spend years getting shuffled around and so-called professionals treat mental health problems like they are being a spoiled brat or bad parenting.

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