Our teenagers have problems.
The titles hit loud alarms around adolescent mental healthAnd data are clouds. In 2023, 40% of the disease control and prevention centers surveyed that lasted the last year they felt hope or sad in the last year. Nine percent suicide.
Some of them are Because Covid. Some of them are Related to social media. Then There is harassment, pressure to succeed academically, to enter pressure. It is difficult to have a US teenager.
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So it is heartily to see Donald Trump President’s mental health address In a final executive document (EO) Chronic health problems aimed at children, Robert F. Kennedy, JR., has been confirmed as a director of health and human services.
But located in this Directive, the RFK, Jr.-Jr.-Committee are words that speak “Healthy America”, who and Trump tried to sow around the science. Research funding for national health institutes and other agencies are not exaggerated by “Golden standards” and doctors are excessive medicines, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and depression and “medical treatments”. pediatric The problem of chronic disease. Perhaps the language used by the administration to describe prescription medicines for humor and behavioral disorders. They are “threat”.
This language stigmates families who choose the prescription medication to treat their children fighting. Weakens the specialization of medical professionals. And it opens unproved treatments without treatment for legitimacy.
The next era of snake oil at dawn. Will anyone think of kids?
According to CDC, in 2021 and 2022, more than half of the teenagers talked to healthcare health care. About 14% of teenagers reported their emotional situation or concentration and behavior management medication. However, 20% said they do not have mental health needs.
Affordable care law, and before, Federal Act of ParityHe entered a lot of Americans, perhaps including these teenagers parents Parity Health head coverage-The insurance plans cannot deny health health coverage, hilarious rates must be charged for the coverage that allows plans for coverage or mental health cover.
But even if you have insurance, depending on where you live, it can be very difficult to find child mental health care. Many suppliers, therapists or psychiatrists, Don’t take insuranceOr don’t take certain plans. This Including Medicaid But too great trading plans. Primary care doctors, including pediatriciansWhat parties are limited to mental health care, which include medicines. In US rural parts., If there are Hundreds of regions those who do not have a single child psychiatrist.
It is then a public education system to provide adequate education for all children, driven by the role of the mental health consultant. Many children in the US, a teacher, a teacher, assistant, a consultant, or other professional say, “I think this child needs help,” or when a child shows behavior. This is admirable and necessary, an estimate says About 70 percent Mental health services of children in school.
But now some states are federal government sued To render Section 504 Education Accommodation For these children, and others with disabilities, constitutional, constitutional to recognize young people with LGBTQ.
This is the cruelty and inconsistency of this management order. Some children with LGBTQ have The highest rate of depression and anxiety in this country. 41 percent suicide 2022-2023. And now we are trying to delete them from them Health care dataor at least to tell the people visiting some federal health websites that the administration believes Science and evidence around the genre. (CDC statistics come from the reports that were temporarily disposed of at the beginning of Trump Administration Part of a push To remove references about gender and sexuality that do not align with a male-female binary ideology.)
So what will Trump Administration decide to study the mental health of our children? Funding funding conversion therapy LGBTQ for adolescent depression? RF, Jr., to treat areas of work to treat dependence on taxpayer dollars “The welfare farm calls«Encourage clinical tests for hydroxikokia to treat mood disorders (remember to promote something like Covid?) Or something like juice as a treatment for depression? This is speculation, of course, rather than Kennedy, with the blessing of the administration, without using tax dollars, effective or harmful treatments.
Kennedy is a lawsuit that is mostly used by our nation Comprehensive health agency. It is not a doctor, not a health care specialist, but a litigator, and what he wanted to hear the statement he wanted See data that supports health care of despair trying to undermine in the last decade. Once it is a matter of public Antidepressure drugs “addictives“And who (falsity) claimed that It’s harder to quit Serotonin accusation inhibitors – drugs like Prozac, rather than heroine.
And now he wants a chance with your child’s mental health.
Meanwhile, the Second Trump Administration makes the health agency what could have been done The first Trump Administration made in Covid and facilitate telemedics, more children to access therapy and psychiatry. The administration extracts data and questions, for the sake of what the validity of the data. EO says the administration will work with insurers to increase access, but what does that mean? Are our medical schools have enough child psychiatrists. And it is not clear that Trump will go again Degrees of foreign doctorsMany of them Fill in a shortage of rural medicineincluding psychiatry.
Antidepressants are not working for everyone, and Some are related to suicide thinking in children. Voicery Don’t help all children With TDah. But this happens in almost all medication classes in this country: some people value for others. Meanwhile, only 14% of teenagers are receiving medication, and one in five tells us that they need more support. How is that excess?
Once antidepressants and claim, they are harder than the heroine, it is not child care. This committee does not want to waste time to try to reinvent the wheel. If his members want to solve mental health disorders as a chronic health status, evidence must facilitate treatment, increase incentives for insurance and staff to increase this type of health care and stigmatizing children.
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