There's a crisis in teen mental health, suggesting a marked increase in mental illness, sadness and teen hopelessness, according to the US Centers fo
There’s a crisis in teen mental health, suggesting a marked increase in mental illness, sadness and teen hopelessness, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported CNN. These findings leave many experts wondering whether the pandemic drove an increase in diagnosable mentalk health disorders in teenagers or if the impact of Covid 19 exacerbated the symptoms of teens already struggling emotionally. Doctor John Walkup, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine said he believes that the pandemic has not driven an increase in the incidence of mental illness among teens, but it has “unmasked symptoms” that may have otherwise been managed, reported CNN.
“There is probably a small group of kids who get long Covid where you might say that there is some direct impact of the Covid virus on the brain, but that’s a pretty small group of kids. But overall, when we think about what Covid has done, it has really destroyed the infrastructure for kids with mental health problems”, said Walkup. “And the structure for that care has fallen away over the past two years. Before the pandemic more and more kids were therefore coming for care, good care. But then when you strip away all of the support infrastructure (school, activities, etc.), those kids are going to become symptomatic much more quickly. Without that infrastructure, we’ve seen a dramatic, unexpected rise in pathology”, notes Walkup, as reported by CNN.
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