Nov 14, 2017, Greenville, NC, WNCT—TV: Kids in Crisis: A look at adolescent mental health http://wnct.com/2017/11/14/kids-in-crisis-a-look-at-adolescent-mental-health/ New studies are showing an unforgiving rise in mental health cases involving children ages 6 to 18. Those cases can lead to self-harm and even suicide, and they’re happening here in the East…. Doctors in Vidant Medical Center’s emergency room said cases of severe depression and self-harm are so common it’s backlogging the department. … In 2016, Integrated Family Services had 625 calls in the east to help children at risk of self-harm. “Our data shows that the trend is rising,” said Fox. We have served each year the data keeps rising more and more. Those trends vary from different issues whether that’s depression anxiety, self-harming behaviors.” According to the Centers for Disease Control, from 1999 to 2015, more than 1,300 children between the ages of 5 and 12 committed suicide nationwide. …
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.