Children’s Mental Health: Easy Money Is No Solution

Put good in, get good out.

Try incorporating fruits and vegetables in your diet more often with brain boosting foods like walnuts and spinach.

Eating well is key to overall health, including your mental well being. His wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, shares a similar sentiment.

Will and Kate’s concern is no revelation.

During her stint guest editing the Huffington Post last year, she wrote that children’s mental health is ‘every bit as important as their physical health’. Generally, the royals’ demand for what policymakers call a ‘parity of esteem’ for physical and mental health is part of a very contemporary, albeit maddening. Accordingly the consequence of all of so it is healthy children being stopped from growing into capable adults and mentally ill children being denied the that’s worrying. Children’s emotional lives are being colonised, their healthy emotions recast as forms of mental illness, at the very same time that child and adolescent mental health services are starved of resources. Notice that many of us are aware that there are also, arguably, those who attempt to project their own problems onto another person and seek to externalise and somehow expunge their insecurities by causing harm to that person.

So there’re some pretty dark possibilities consequent to this. Likely the royal couple been put up to this and spoon fed press statements by somebody else behind the scenes who lobbies for mental health spending. We have raised ‘Generation Snowflake’, she argues, by promoting a culture of ‘selfesteem’ in schools that enfeebles young people and encourages them to interpret normal emotions as signs of mental illness. Claire Fox, director of the Institute of Ideas, has argued that so it is part of a wider phenomenon whereby kids are being encouraged to feel anxious and vulnerable about pretty much everything. Accordingly the expansion of the diagnosis of mental health problems in children and young adults marks a dangerous shift. I can foresee an increase in unprovoked assaults and so on, as one unwell subset people see the murder as a light green light to ‘cleanse society’ of another unwell subset people. Make sure you drop suggestions about it in the comment section. Indeed, even Natasha Devon, the former government children’s mentalhealth tsar, admitted that the current definitions of some mental illnesses ‘sound a lot like being a teenager’.

In line with Devon, so this blurring of the boundaries between the normal and the abnormal is ‘something to celebrate’, in that it allows children to speak out about their problems. Teaching children to suck it up and soldier on’, she says, is a kind of ‘emotional inauthenticity’. Dave Clements is a writer, public servant and convenor of the Institute of Ideas Social Policy Forum. Follow him on Twitter. Eventually, visit his website here. So it is arguably the other side of the poser, over the ‘new terrorists’. Something happens, to some young people, that they are unable to understand or deal with at the time, and which -‘importantlythey’ are still unable to, even as they go into adulthood. Accordingly the other possibility is that one of their own children suffers from some particular neurological problem and they are easing the way for a future monarch. Anyway, in the royal family, I know it’s difficult to tell if for the most part there’s neurological damage or if That’s a fact, it’s just inherited for a reason of generations of inbreeding.