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Why don't we have more mental health help for teens?

Most insurance does not pay for residential treatment, unless a child has a physical disability or does drugs there is virtually no affordable help for them. So when you see the news and a teen has done something horrible, you ask yourself why the parents didn't do something? Because if you can't afford $400 per day then help is minimal at best. As a society and as parents I ask you write your congressmen, senators heck the president and demand there be better resources for children who have behavior problems, OCD, poor impulse control, pre-anti-social disorder and numerous other conditions that go under treated or untreated and keep our children out of juvenile prisons.

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  • Minmi
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I don't live in your country, but I sympathise with your plight.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I dono

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