Nearly a Third of Adolescents Getting Mental Health Treatment, Federal Survey Finds

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From CBS News: “Close to 1 in 3 adolescents in the U.S. received mental health treatmentĀ in 2023, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported Tuesday, which works out to around 8.3 million young people between the ages of 12 and 17 getting counseling, medication or another treatment.

. . . The most common type of mental health treatment was meeting with a provider in an outpatient setting, like at an office of a therapist or school counseling center.

Among adolescents, the biggest increase from 2022 was in the number getting medication for mental health treatment. SAMHSA estimates that 13.9% of those age 12 to 17 received such a prescription in 2023. That is up from 12.8% the year before, though the agency said that the increase was not statistically significant.

The share of adults receiving mental health treatment has also climbed, from 21.8% in the 2022 survey to 23% in 2023. Among adults, 16.3% got prescription medication for mental health treatment, compared to 15.2% in 2022.

SAMHSA officials said they saw the increase as a positive development, citing efforts to normalize and destigmatize seeking out mental health treatment.”

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  1. A third have mental illness, but how many on top of that have given up on school, have lapsed into drug use, have become sexually promiscuous, or become criminally active, which are equally treatments for what you call ‘mental illness’ and lime green women with painted radio lemonade breasts without any understanding of the simple fact that it is human desperation at the blind and swamping, all encompassing and engulfing slew of social history that drowns us in words and doorways? My doorways are at the front and at the back. At the front is the mysterious Earth consciousness with all her spirits and mists and mysteries and hieroglyphic egyptician ladies on illuminous green stallions made of golden light, all black and white, while at the back is the spiritual universe with all the dieties and worlds and orders of light and love and radical, explosive creation. What were we talking about again? Oh yeah, a third of kids are insane. That’s because they are living in your airtight vacuum packed socially conditioned factory consciousness called society. Just give them loads of magic mushrooms and LSD and get them painting and misbehaving and they’ll be fine. And make sure you do the same too. The Universe is ALWAYS waiting for you. Yr always last in the queue.

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  2. “SAMHSA officials said they saw the increase as a positive development, citing efforts to normalize and destigmatize seeking out mental health treatment.ā€

    How incredibly sad, SAMSA has sunk so low. Given the fact their DSM “bible” was debunked by the former head of the NIMH and the primary editor of the DSM-VI, in 2013 and 2010.

    https://psychrights.org/2013/130429NIMHTransformingDiagnosis.htm
    https://www.wired.com/2010/12/ff-dsmv/

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