How to help children going through a mental health crisis

Senior clinical psychologist Jamie Howard, from the Child Mind Institute, joins "CBS Mornings" to share her tips on helping kids and teenagers through anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts.

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[Hotrodchef]

I am glad that we are having more conversations like this now and I know the pandemic had something to do with that. Mental health is very important for everyone at every stage.

[Terry_Merry_Berry]

Suicidal ideation started for me around age 6-7, has never gone away and been used against me by my parents. Now I don’t talk about it to anyone, i don’t trust anyone not even myself. If parents want to help their kids be there for them, prove they can trust you in many ways and that they are safe with you. The world can be cold and unforgiving, especially to young girls and women. We feel a lot of pressure from such a young age. It starts with your first play set that’s a mock kitchen, while the boys get action figures and nerf guns and recreational toys, then we are told by society to be sexy, but also don’t because then you’re a jezebel, be smart, but don’t at the same time, keep your mouth shut, serve yourself and love yourself, but also your partner comes first and you’re literally their servant, it’s a lot to navigate, the pressure is tremendous. It keeps growing too, with age, after 30 your deemed by many to be used up or past the point of no return. Also everyone has an opinion about how your hit looks or how your makeup looks or how those jeans fit you, it’s overwhelming and I thought it would stop after puberty but it doesn’t, all through life it’s a steady flow of constant judgment. Being a woman takes a lot of bravery and it’s not easy to navigate. The craziest thing is a lot of us women are going through this same thing but we still feel so alone and pitted against each other in many ways, that makes it difficult for us to properly support each other.

[StarlahMutiny]

Yeah hi: adults need mental health help too... the entire mental health system needs to be handled better.

[martinhumble]

Hugs. Is this really hard to understand

[inthemidstfor]

Not only lost God, but the 10 commandments, right and wrong, sense of faith and hope in Him
Bring Him back, it will help kids alot

AND 2 functioning parents who teach them of Him. The 60:s was beginning of the end. Social morals out the window, then God taken out of schools, women's lib agenda pushed, latch key kids, skyrocketing divorce rates, abortion used as convieneint birth control, drugs, party hardy, overall breakdown of the family unit. In nutshell, this is the problem, the answer is above🙏

[jwebstersmithii]

Solution: GET CENTERED by being RIGHT HERE....RIGHT NOW. There is nowhere to go and nothing to be done. And REALIZE: you are already COMPLETE. Unhappiness derives from ATTACHMENT TO SOMETHING OUTSIDE of yourself. If you BECOME NON-ATTACHED, then you are no longer divided from yourself. You BECOME COMPLETE.

[thomaslgregoryjr]

For decades, U.S. boys have died by suicide far more frequently than girls, even though girls attempt suicide and report contemplating it more often. In the suicide prevention world, the phenomenon is known as the gender paradox.

The paradox still persists today—but new data published in JAMA Network Open suggest the gap between male and female youth suicide deaths is narrowing.

[futures]

tell them to avoid like the plague medicalising mental (ill) health services - we need to change our cultures not constantly drug and therapise people to accept myriad cultural disorders.