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| England Sees 39% Rise In Children Needing Help For Serious Mental Health Problems | |
| 2023-01-05 | |
| [ZeroHedge] Figures show more than a million children need treatment for serious mental health problems, including eating disorders, in the time since lockdowns were imposed in England. NHS data analysed by the PA news agency show a 39 percent rise in a year in referrals for NHS mental health treatment for under-18s, to 1,169,515 in 2021 to 2022. This compares with the previous year of 2020 to 2021, when the figure was 839,570. In 2019 to 2020 there were 850,741 referrals. From 2020 to early 2022 the UK government imposed multiple COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions. The England-wide data include children who are suicidal, self-harming, suffering serious depression or anxiety, and those with eating disorders. Hospital admissions for eating disorders were also found to be increasing among under-18s. There were 7,719 admissions in 2021/22, up from 6,079 the previous year, and 4,232 in 2019/20, an 82 percent rise across two years.
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| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 How much of this is "real-Real" and how much of this is the result of an ever expanding horde of administrators and experts of "mental wellness" finding new maladies to justify their jobs? The 'Lack or Reproducibilityâ„¢' scandal in the non-STEM fields make me cynical about their statements. /\Glenmore, I know two Veterans that would be crazy if they had listened to the psychiatrists that had tried to treat them with drugs and bone rattles. One was Korean War and the other a Vietnam Vet so the problem is not new. |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-01-05 13:37 |
| #1 Most kids want to be ‘normal’ but society now insists that they have to be abnormal to be normal, so they find some way to do that. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2023-01-05 08:53 |