It sure is…unless the subject is the national debt. Did you know that The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention reports that 1 in 5 American children ages 3 through 17,
that’s about 15 million by the way, have a diagnosable mental, emotional or
behavioral disorder in any given year.
That may not be the most disturbing statistic. This one may be…Eighty percent of them
(that’s about 12 million) don’t receive treatment! Nearly all of the recent research indicates
that serious depression is getting much worse in teens, especially among
girls. I will lay one more statistic at
your feet…suicide rates among adolescent females have reached a forty year
high.
All of these stats are not given to make you panic. I provide them to hopefully motivate you to
seek the help that you may need in raising your child to maturity. Don’t pull the covers over your head! Let’s tackle any and all mental health
problems in your child immediately. Please contact me, Dr. Steven Sussman, at (908)
217-8106 and we’ll talk at my Mountainside, NJ office.
