One in four people will have a mental health disorder at some point in their life, and half of those disorders begin in childhood.
While many of us know someone who’s had to deal with a mental illness in one way or another, many parents still aren’t sure how to assess whether their child needs to see a therapist.
Let’s talk about stigma and psychiatry.
I know.
Yawn.
You’ve heard all this before. We never seem to stop, you’re thinking, with our worried hand-wringing about the pernicious and dangerous biases that relentlessly dog psychiatric illness and especially those who suffer from psychiatry syndromes.