Well I believe this bad news. I see extraordinarily troubled teens and dysfunctional families.
I became concerned many years ago when I saw young kids on big time psych meds. My pediatrician and psych colleagues say it’s frightening how sick some of these kids are. My teacher friends say it has changed the nature of their work–they are required to devote a lot of time to unsociallized feral children.
This is a pretty decent review of the latest CDC assessment of teen suicides and suicide risk.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/sad_truths_about_teen_suicide.html
One must consider that the suicide rate or thoughts of suicide are symptomatic of a deeper and wider problem–we have a lot of kids who won’t ever be functional adults. A lot of parents who are clueless on how to make a child into an adult, because, they may be of that generation i saw many years ago that didn’t get it, and never grew up themselves.
It is terrible to see. Some families are completely torn up by mental illness, and have multiple members with serious mental problems.
It is no surprise it wipes out families–we are social animals, dependent on the family as a place of safety and succor.
Some families have multiple children with mental health problems at a very young age, already recieving for social security. Imagine your life as a parent if you have a child who has required hospitalization for a mental illness.
The oppositional defiant, ADHD, emotional disorder children have become a big problem that will overwhelm our schools and may create a major problem in our healthcare system.