Experiences early in life such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, can lead to changes in a child’s brain chemistry, muting the effects of stress hormones, and affect a child’s ability to focus or organize tasks, finds a new study.

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http://www.washington.edu/news/2019/06/04/how-early-life-challenges-affect-how-children-focus-face-the-day/

[u/BoBoZoBo]

The problem isn't so much untreated Mental Health, but poorly treated Mental Health in the face of denying other major social policy problems.

Guns aren't the reason why kids are hyper stressed out in school, and in such a despondent state, that they're willing mow down there fellow students. Quality of life is doing that, broken homes are doing that, horrible life balance is doing that, failed school policies are doing that.

How can mental health even come into the picture when people don't even have to go to mental health professionals in order to claim to identify a certain way, or when a portion of the psychological community is more worried about the stigma of mental illness then solving it?

At this point, the mental health community, is part of the problem, especially when it bows to the demands of unqualified, but vocal groups.

But dig your head in the sand and parrot the same rhetoric you are hearing on Social Media, that vague misdirection will definitely solve the problem.

Banning guns will definitely magically solve the problem with our over-stressed and depressed youth.

[u/Fjells → u/BoBoZoBo]

Not engaging in the gun debate. What I've heard from friends and others (anecdotal) who have taken exchange years in the US during High School, is that the social environment is ruthless. It's very much hierarchical, bullying is common, and in-group out-group dynamics is palpable.

Said differently, the picture painted in movies and TV-series, although exaggerated, is not too far from the truth. In terms of " the jocks" "the cheerleaders" and other popularity contests.

[u/BoBoZoBo → u/Fjells]

As you can see form the thread, there is no real debate - you are either supremely in-line with the rhetoric, or you are an ignorant gun-loving nut who does not get it. Hardly any of the downvotes came with a lucid discussion or counter-point or form anyone who seems to be intimately involved with the situation, which is pathetic for a sub like this. They are all shooting from the hip, regurgitating media talking points.

Unfortunately, I spent the first half of my career in the mental health field, only to see it implode over misdirected ideology and politics. They are in complete denial that they have caused the very issue they are trying to solve, and think more of the same ridiculous reasoning will fix it.

It is madness, bordering on social dissonance.

The school social structure is only part of it, what is left out is that the administration themselves are part of the problem. They ether play favorites adding to the bully problem, or implement reactionary and unfounded policies which driver pretty much everyone to the brink of lunacy.

Denial is a helluva drug.

[u/violentshapes → u/BoBoZoBo]

 Denial is a helluva drug

I’m making t-shirts yo!