Why aren't kids getting needed mental health services? Lack of professionals or health insurance limits?

mental health services are woefully inadequate.

and don't forget, even when someone gets treatment, treatment is not much further along than back in the day when lobotomies were the treatment of choice.

and they didn't do lobotomies for fun; it was developed because there generally weren't any other effective options.

society has a duty to protect itself: from criminals, from military threats, from pollution, from economic distress, AND from the dangerously mentally ill.

It's because parents don't get help for their kids unless the parent is inconvenienced by the behavior enough to make it worth it to them. The programs and the therapist are out there, even most schools have counselors that kids can go to. Once the kids are teens, they have to want the help,see the problem and actually work at the therapy. Most won't, most don't care, many adults are the same way. They think they can handle it.

Most mental health issues need to be addressed by someone other then the ones with the issues. Our system doesn't allow for that and the only way it could. Would be in violation of our rights as we currently know them.

It's not enough to throw money at it

"what's my first assembly going to be like with a psychiatrist? throughout your first visit, your psychiatrist will mostly make an intensive evaluation of your symptoms and the heritage of your problems with the intention to guage the aptitude advantages of drugs as a treatment determination. she or he will also ask about your spouse and youngsters heritage besides as any medical complications from so that you may conflict through. she or he will then seek for advice from you the reward and drawbacks of drugs as a treatment determination which includes ability undesirable consequences. you may then make an suggested determination about even if that is advisable to attempt medicine." different psychological health care experts will do almost the exact same. Therapists/psychologists ought to no longer emphasize meds as a lot.

he needs to have a regular psychiatrist that he sees on a regular basis..... then this doctor can get him into the hospital when needed and can prescribe medication without waiting months..... Sounds like they don;t do anythign abotu his disorder until there is a crisis..... he needs to be under the constant care of a psychiatrist. I have Bipolar 1 and I see my psychiatrist every 3 months.... if I need somethign in between I just call and she takes care of it. If you are just doing crisis intervention then you have to wait until a new doctor can see you.

Repeal Obamacare

Liberals kicking them out of mental hosp's in the past and the same stuff going on now.

just because someone has a mental health problem doesn't mean they are gonna shoot up a place.

stop contributing to bigotry.

a fear of snakes or small spaces is technically a mental health problem.

what's yours?

Parents in denial. hehehe

Ready access to pharmaceuticals. hehehe

You cant cure the insane .