Kids With Mental Disorders Needs Treatment
Filed under: Anxiety Symptoms, Child Anxiety, Depression, Fear, Mental Health, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, panic disorder
No kids should go without medical care.
Stop, let me rephrase to really talk about what I want to say…
I meant, that kids who have mental health disorder should have medical care. period.
It is tough enough for our children to be just kids, but, imagine having a mental disorder on top of all the other pressures kids go through these days. Although, I do not mean to undermine all the other health related problems children face today but having an acute episode of any mental health related disorder is just too much to even think of the hurting that these kids are experiencing.
Can you imagine not having treatment? medication? guidance? a way or format to release?
Well,
The Los Angeles Times – Health reports that only 55% of kids with a mental disorder sought professional treatment.
This to me is a tragic, tragic statistic, although it is higher that previous year there is still too many kids affected not seeking or getting medical treatment.
The LA Times report continues by stating that the National Institute of Mental Health using data from 3,042 kids who took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, found the prevalence of six mental health disorders affecting children and adolescents between the ages of 8 and 15.
These are:
* 8.6% had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
* 3.7% were depressed
* 2.1% had conduct disorder
* 0.7% suffered from generalized anxiety disorder or panic disorder
* 0.1% were anorexic or bulimic
* 13% of kids surveyed had at least one of these disorders, and 1.8% had two or more.
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Child Anxiety Treatment, Helping Kids with Anxiety, Mood Disorders and Somatoform
Filed under: Anxiety Research, Child Anxiety, Mood Disorders, Somatoform
Child Anxiety Treatment
My Own Anxiety
I know of the difficulties of my own anxieties. I have other disorders problems as well and I know what that experience is… but can you imagine a child having acute anxiety episodes? Can you? I can not even think about the discussion we are about to have here which is in regards to your child anxiety treatment!
This to me, acute child anxiety, was an unknown until I read this article at news-medical.net. I think you should read the article and see what is being done for having children (may I repeat) children cope with anxiety, mood disorders and Somatoform.
So you know, intense fear, worry, and uneasiness have for always significantly affected my life, and now I know that even children can experience what I experience. I always thought that child anxiety was more about separation anxieties. I was wrong.
To read the article online: click here
I am finding that children anxiety symptoms are usually manifested in the child being afraid, worried, or uneasy that they cannot function normally. It is amazing for me to know that some children anxiety disorders can last through out the life of the kid and can greatly interfere in their daily lives.
This is what the National Mental Health Center says in their website, “Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental, emotional, and behavioral problems to occur during childhood and adolescence. About 13 of every 100 children and adolescents ages 9 to 17 experience some kind of anxiety disorder; girls are affected more than boys.1 About half of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders have a second anxiety disorder or other mental or behavioral disorder, such as depression. In addition, anxiety disorders may coexist with physical health conditions requiring treatment.”
Can you imagine 13 out every 100 kids have some form of anxiety, mood disorder or Somatoform! This statistics is huge and big enough to know that this is a problem in today’s society.
The article at news-medical.net discusses about a new child anxiety therapy for decreasing these symptoms through Well-Being Therapy (WBT). Here is what the article says, “The aim of this study was to apply a modified form of WBT to a child population of patients with mood, anxiety and conduct disorders, and to test its effects in reducing symptoms and in improving new skills and competencies in children.”
Once again, I highly recommend you read the article. Click here.
The last part that strikes me is this Somatoform.
What is Somatoform?
Looking in Wikipedia we read the following: “Somatoform disorder (also known as Briquet’s syndrome) is a mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms that mimic physical disease or injury for which there is no identifiable physical cause[1]. Somatoform disorder is a condition in which the physical symptoms a person feels are due to mental factors. These symptoms can not be traced to a specific physical cause. In people who have Somatoform disorder, medical test results are either normal or don’t explain the person’s symptoms. People who have this disorder may undergo several medical evaluations and tests to be sure that they do not have an illness related to a physical cause or central lesion. Patients with this disorder often become very worried about their health because the doctors are unable to find a cause for their health problems. Their symptoms are similar to the symptoms of other illnesses and may last for several years.”
My Last Point – Child Anxiety Treatment
My last point… you know at times we adults think we are so inundated with problems—mental, physical, emotional, financial, and much more—after today, I love my kids even more.
The children have to go through so much… It is not fair for a child to have to go through a child anxiety treatment or treatments. I am hoping this new well-being treatment helps many children with anxiety, mood disorder and Somatoform.
Enough said.
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