Jan 8, 2018, Wood TV, Grand Rapids, MI: Growing number of teens diagnosed with anxiety disorders http://woodtv.com/2018/01/08/growing-number-of-teens-experiencing-anxiety-disorders/ Musser was suffering from crippling anxiety mixed with depression. It made her a shell of the big, bright personality those around her had come to expect. “It’s like a fighting of back and forth. You care about everything with anxiety, but when you have depression you care about nothing,” Madelyn said. “It’s these emotions, all this craziness, it’s hard making decisions.” Musser is not alone. She is among the nearly one in four teenagers who are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. For Roxanne McCarron, the guidance counselor at Grandville Middle School, this is a rising trend she is seeing. “The changes that I’ve seen in kids’ mental health in the 22 years I’ve been doing it, I see we talk about the anxiety and depression so much more now than they did back when I started,” McCarron said. …
Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.