Posted on 08/04/2014 3:41:04 PM PDT by mdittmar
MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- The number of young American adults getting mental health treatment has risen since the rule on dependent coverage went into effect with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, a new study finds.
That key provision ensures that those aged 19 to 25 have the option of remaining on their parents' health insurance plan. It's been in effect since September 2010.
In the new study, researchers found that the move may be allowing more young adults to receive mental health care. Soon after the rule took hold, the number of 18- to 25-year-olds in mental health treatment rose nationally -- by a couple of percentage points among those who had potential symptoms of psychiatric conditions.
"That's very good news," said Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein, a psychiatrist and president of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation in New York City.
"Often, mental health disorders like schizophrenia, depression and substance abuse first manifest in this age group," said Borenstein, who was not involved in the study. At the same time, he added, those disorders can keep some young adults from holding a job -- and gaining their own health insurance.
Brendan Saloner, one of the researchers on the study, agreed that young adults are "particularly vulnerable" for those reasons.
Based on the new findings, Saloner said, the rule seems to be a "stepping stone" to improving young Americans' access to mental health care.
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until you have watched a first break schizophrenic or psychotic bipolar in action, or a profound depressive you have no idea of how ill a mentally ill person can get, or how heartbreaking it is to see fine young men and women have their trajectory cut short and lives broken by the severe mental illness.
Mental illness first breaks usually happen between 16 and 30. Usually 19 to 27.
until you have watched a first break schizophrenic or psychotic bipolar in action, or a profound depressive you have no idea of how ill a mentally ill person can get, or how heartbreaking it is to see fine young men and women have their trajectory cut short and lives broken by the severe mental illness.
Mental illness first breaks usually happen between 16 and 30. Usually 19 to 27.
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and yes they need care and drugs to live. These people are truly crippled and not buzzed.
“Often, mental health disorders like schizophrenia, depression and substance abuse first manifest in this age group,”
Since when was substance abuse a mental disorder??
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Exactly my thoughts! Substance abuse CAUSES many of the mental health disorders!
Never, ever talk with a pshrink, unless it is under full anonymity.
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