Why Is There Such A Huge Increase In Those With Mental Health Issues? – Vol. 510, August 15, 2019
This is a very important question that you ask and I am learning much about it through my research for my master’s in medical sociology.
I believe the most helpful answer comes from the kids themselves. They feel totally stressed out with all the pressures on them to succeed in school and every extra-curricular activity to gain entry to the best university possible.
They see the warnings all over the newscast regarding war, specifically that we Americans will always be at war someplace as it is all they have experienced.
They hear how the government is doing nothing about climate control with many scientists claiming that we are killing the earth.
And that doesn’t even touch the GMO and irradiated food here in the US, none of it labeled. The 6- fold increase in prescribed psych pharmaceuticals to kids with their gray matter being decreased as a result causing impulse control issues and lack of ability to have emotional control. We have 10,000 toddlers on psychotropic medications, so we are poisoning them and the list goes on.
However, the issue for high school and college-bound is how to go to college with heavy debt realizing that the income once graduated (if they can find a job) will be less then what a person their parent’s age would have earned on their graduation into the workforce. Inflation is killing us and low paying jobs make it worse. How are they to pay tremendously high college debt, ridiculously high rents at least on the coasts and raise a family?
After listening to the work of Dr. Gabor Mate, a psychiatrist who has worked with the poor dealing with serious mental health problems, drug addictions, and HIV, we need to consider the role of parents. He states that parents are so stressed out, they are not emotionally available to their children. What this does is stunt the growth of the hippocampus of the brain, which is responsible for the memories, emotional regulation and learning. He is very clear that he is not blaming parents for the society in which we live. He is just pointing out the importance of parents being present for their kids especially during the first seven or eight years of life when the brain is developing the most. Kids need loving interested parents to care for them.
These are real issues that these kids are confronting which need to be dealt with in a realistic manner by the various governmental agencies involved.
It’s a naive person who believes that this is all about diagnosis, as we are a label happy society, especially in the USA. Check out all the questions on Quora where people are asking about psychiatric labels trying to label themselves or worse someone else without the basic understanding of how convoluted the DSM 5 is, especially with every normal emotion being pathologized to match some prescription to it, instead of focusing on teaching these folks emotional regulation and coping skills.
The Mental health system is a travesty, and so are many other areas of life here in the USA.
I was born here in the USA in 1961, to a father who was a dentist, now long passed away. So, I was raised believing in conventional medical services, however, my eyes have been open after being in the field since 1993 and dealing with psychiatrists who had zero ability to listen to their patients’ concerns especially regarding over medication. Sad, but true.
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