Parents concerned about teen mental health need look no further. Factual information can help you make decisions that will really help your child be happier in her life. Teens are at a vulnerable stage of life, and as a parent, if you search the web or talk to your friends, you’ll get plenty of advice on how to help improve your teen’s mental health.
However, the facts are what matters! The facts have no vested interests or bias and can help you, the loving parent, determine what is best for your child. First, to define mental health symptoms, disorders, and diagnoses, there are these facts: There are no medical tests that can detect a mental health disorder (no brain scan, no blood test, no chemical imbalance test). Dr. Allen Frances, editor of the Psychiatric Diagnostic Manual, Edition IV, states in an article titled, Mislabeling a medical illness as a mental disorder“that diagnoses “will harm people with medical illnesses by mislabeling their medical problems as mental disorders.” Dr. Russell Barkley, clinical professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, in the same article, states, “There is no laboratory test for any mental disorder at this point in our science.
Psychiatric disorders are listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association. Disorders are voted on by knowledgeable working groups of psychiatrists. The New Yorker reported that Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, refuted the validity of mental health diagnoses. “Insel announced that the DSM diagnostic categories were invalid, that they were not ‘based on any objective measure,’ and that ‘unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS,’ which are based on biology, were not nothing more than constructs crafted by committees of experts. America’s chief psychiatrist seemed to be reiterating what many had been saying all along: that psychiatry was a pseudoscience, unworthy of being included in the medical realm. According to a report by 2012 from the University of Massachusetts, “Three-quarters of task forces continue to have the majority of their members with financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.” According to the FDA, some of the side effects of psychiatric medications include mania, psychosis, depression, suicidal thoughts, thoughts and death Non-psychiatric medical professionals can, and do, perform medical tests to detect which any possible underlying physical cause of unwanted mental health symptoms.
According to the Florida Department of Health Regulation, Florida Patient Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, each individual has the right to be fully informed about the proposed medical treatment or procedure. This includes the right to know the risks and alternatives. For those who live outside of Florida, informed consent, the right to know the risks and alternatives to any treatment, is a legally accepted term used worldwide and guarantees your right to make decisions about your health and well-being.
Second, taking into account the facts mentioned above, it becomes a vicious cycle for any adolescent, adult or elderly person who is experiencing the stress of life and therefore the effects of that stress, such as anxiety, depression, mood swings, aggression and more. The endless circle is one of mental health diagnoses, mental health drugs (more drugs, either prescribed or abused), and more mental health diagnoses, with only apparent improvement in symptoms if the drug or the drugs have chemically restrained the initial and unwanted mental disorder. health symptoms, temporarily. Unfortunately, for most, those restrictions don’t work after a while and adverse effects set in, which of course leads to more mental health symptoms, more diagnoses, and more medications.
Teen mental health is an important topic! It has to do with the welfare of your child, our future adult in society. Those who shape and direct how our culture will develop over time. To improve your teen’s mental health, consider the facts and, in doing so, talk to traditional, non-mental health professionals about the possibility of a full medical exam that assesses all possible physical causes of depression, anxiety, aggression, and So.
Time and history are on your side, because throughout the ages, and spread out over the last 4 decades, there is medical research and plenty of documented real-life cases of people using a full physical and find the real physical cause of their problems. and it was all resolved by using medical science that contained none of the FDA warnings on mental health drugs, which of course are mental health symptoms themselves. Such as mania, delusions, psychosis, worsening of depression, anxiety, hallucinations, suicidal and homicidal thoughts and actions.
Will Fudeman, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, recently published an article about his work as a psychotherapist. He felt that he had to do more to help his patients than listen to their problems. He decided, after his own personal experience of being in horrible pain after a car accident, that he wanted to study Chinese medicine. He was licensed to practice as an acupuncturist and, after his 20 years as a therapist, he says he had come to understand that the emotional and the physical are “intertwined.”
Dr. Fudeman cites Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and his research in treating people who have experienced all types of trauma. Even those who have been to war, experienced natural disasters and serious accidents, etc. Fudeman says that “Van der Kolk found that trauma survivors are most helped by treatments that bring them into their bodies in the present moment.”
