Posted on 12/27/2022 1:25:17 PM PST by grundle
For emergency room doctors, they are a dispiriting and familiar sight: Children who return again and again in the grip of mental health crises, brought in by caregivers who are frightened or overwhelmed.
Much has been written about the surge in pediatric mental health emergency visits in recent years, as rates of depression and suicidal behavior among teens surged. Patients often spend days or weeks in exam rooms waiting for a rare psychiatric bed to open up, sharply reducing hospital capacity.
But a large study published Tuesday found a surprising trend among adolescents who repeatedly visited the hospital. The patients most likely to reappear in emergency rooms were not patients who harmed themselves, but rather those whose agitation and aggressive behavior proved too much for their caregivers to manage.
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In many cases, repeat visitors had previously received sedatives or other drugs to restrain them when their behavior became disruptive.
“Families come in with their children who have severe behavioral problems, and the families really just are at their wit’s end, you know,” said Dr. Anna M. Cushing, a pediatric emergency room physician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and one of the authors of the study. “Their child’s behavior may be a danger to themselves, but also to the parents, to the other children in the home.”
The findings, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, analyzed more than 308,000 mental health visits at 38 hospitals between 2015 and 2020.
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I wonder what percentage of caregivers bringing kids in are grandparents...
If that percentage is high...
That would explain a lot.
Then they can GET THEIR CRAZY CHECKS FROM Social Security................
Uh, no.
"Psychiatric ERs" - conjures up images that would probably haunt a kid the rest of their life, and if not already tending toward some psychiatric problem, would definitely bring one on!
These are the kids who have no executive functioning.
They live in the disorganized ever present now riding their anger and impervious to direction.
They are often brought in by foster parents.
They spend their days in special classrooms with 1 on 1 or 2 on 1 care.
They demolish everything. Police are often called.
People with these children live in hell.
Also get their psychotropic drugs, so they stay crazy.
My parents gave me a bicycle, a skateboard, and freedom from 8:00AM until 5:00PM. I was not encouraged to take up space at home during those hours. As it should be.
Brains damaged by maternal drugs or at birth or by early delivery...these kids are dangerous to all. They used to be locked up n state centers and medicated
Tragic but understandable.
There is no problem no matter how bad that cannot be made worse by the intervention of a psychiatrist.
They are frauds. Every one. And their lickspittle allies, the psychologists.
I had to be called in from outside, never to go outside.
Retirement feels to me like it was when we were kids: Breakfast, go outside all morning, lunch, nap, then back outside until dark. Its great.
What sort of person would you want to cope with the children and adolescents I describe in my post?
All true observations. I am a certified teacher for children who have been placed by the state in our privately run juvenile detention facility. I work on the boys side. The best success is seen when these boys can make a trusting relationship with me or other staff that is exhibiting consistency and integrity, the love of God, and a real caring for these boys. Many days my drive home is the experience of deep grieving over all the brokenness in their lives.
Duct tape and spankings could be used instead of psychoactive drugs, but only if we become a more enlightened society.
Many years ago I worked as a teacher in a juvenile detention center. It was for criminal boys. One time we visited the girls’ facility. It was much more like a prison than the boys’. Unlike the boys, most girls were not in for actual crimes—they had become impossible for their parents to control.
Because you can’t yet buy anti-psychotics at Walgreens
Probably caught the kids writing blogs. Or worse, READING blogs.
Shrinks won't help, only a good ass whipping will do.
Young or old, give 'em the strap if they are involved with blogs.
Should have opened up the gates between the two.
The boys would have shown them the way.
Funny it’s congruent with my comment on your other family thread
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