How Wisconsin children have more access for mental health needs

Austin Bruenger’s pediatrician now has a therapist in her office & Bruenger has been able to get regular outpatient therapy for his depression.

#MentalHealth

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[sto]

I’m so proud of Austin for stepping out and being a voice for mental health. He has a very bright future.

[hbrocks]

Talk about heroes! God bless this kid!

[IshhTheFish]

We should provide kids with everything they need at all levels of school

[keiththompson]

This young man speaks wisdom beyond his years. Give him rudimentary training where he might assist in youth mental health crises. He is capable of relating and empathizing. Supervised, yes. For sure there are things to say and things not to say. BUT....I forgot the big "L" word--liability. Hospitals and clinics have countless waivers to be signed before admission. If not in urgent care a crisis counseling center. Work along these lines can be very rewarding, maybe even more so for him. It would also give a sense of self-worth while helping others. [My comment has not been thoroughly considered and risk criticism for why it couldn't or shouldn't be done.]

[joemisek]

We need to know precisely what Wisconsin is doing right, then. I'm a case manager in Illinois and this is a terrible state for children with behavioral and mental health issues, too much need, too few resources, and Medicaid care has too many kids falling into gaps. The pandemic made things twice as bad too.

[EverlastingEllie]

i went to school with this kid for 2 years (transferred out) and god damn has he changed from this video.

[JenniferChurchman]

Hey 60 Minutes!! YouTube is NOT TicTok or whatever and you can upload longer videos. What are all these short a$$ videos, that cost me more time in commercials or waiting for the videos? Like just upload the episode after it has aired. Break it down by story but not by minute. It's not like you have 60 stories in 60 Minutes. So sad.

[billybarnett]

I've been wondering about something. We didn't have this problem when I was a kid. Kids today eat more processed food. What effect does that have on the developing brain? I've seen the physical effects. No obesity, but abnormal physical development.

[DeanDangerousTDD]

*AN IMPORTANT WARNING TO ALL SINGLE PARENTS*
My suggestion is a unpopular suggestion giving the fact that so many people are prescribed to ADHD meds. I suggest that *60 minutes* does a quick video on doctors prescribing pre teens behavior altering meds. In my opinion these meds are the new gateway drug. Most of the time it is not the parent who is in pursuit of medicating they're child yet the suggestion is often brought to them from a employee of the child's school. Medicating children for behavior altering purposes will someday be looked at as a crime against humanity.
I believe doctors and other people in the medical field deserve to be financially wealthy but if its at the cost of our youth then is it really worth it? We have to find a better way for these educated people to earn the money that they deserve. They have done all the hard work with school & are also very important to the function of a healthy society. They deserve to be financially compensated but prescribing our youth with behavior altering meds is wrong though & needs to be stopped! Especially giving the fact that these kids being prescribed have no say in the matter nor do they have rights protecting themselves like the rest of us adults have protecting us.
This is a evil road that we have taken as a society and the results are starting to become clear. Most of these kids prescribed to ADHD meds eventually end up having to take more prescribed drugs in order to counter some of the side effects from the initial drug and this continues well into adulthood. How can anyone justify this? *AMERICAN SOCIETY REVOLUTION* *AMERICAN INTERMEDIARY* Kids in America aren't being prescribed behavior altering meds do to having a problem with stress or simple aggression. Kids here are being prescribed ADHD meds because of supposed focus issues and also issues surrounding a wide range of supposed problematic type behavior. This decision to medicate our youth the way that we have been, will come back to haunt us! *
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL PARENTS*

[Superdad]

Coach Much?

Less Drugs. More social interations.

[cmcgrew]

I hope this doesn't sound insensitive, but I fear that a part of the problem with this boy is the system. i feel like something needs to change instead of dumping these kids off at a stuffy institution for 8 hours a day. And, since COVID hsd hit, some of these kids have had a harder time than ever before. Why not some originality in education? It might be better to homeschool this kid instead and change his environment. Give him books to read, a goal to aspire to, a musical instrument to play, some ghosts to talk to, a game to play like chess, I don't know. I get it that there's a lot more to depression than the environment, and i certainly don't want to count that out. However, I just can't help but feel like we're going to see a lot more of this. Something is rotten at the core of the system. I think it may be better to educate some kids in unconventional ways, instead of shoving them off to the public school system.

[Sam]

"He's fat and has all this pent up energy we need to let him burn off." - Cesar Millan

[USMCCGAGNG]

OMG! You’re showing faces and saying the “M” word! I know this is demonetized!