By Kristen Rogers, CNN
Click2Houston
https://www.click2houston.com/news/national/2020/02/27/moodiness-or-more-how-to-tell-if-your-kids-suffering-from-a-mental-disorder/
Children’s lives may not be as hard as adults’ lives, but sometimes their moodiness and sadness are more than just a phase.
Around one in six US youth ages 6 to 17 has a mental, behavioral or developmental disorder such as anxiety, depression or attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder, according to a 2019 report in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
The number of youth struggling with mental disorders such as depression and anxiety has increased by 52% between 2005 and 2017. Recent studies suggest this rise could partly be due to social media use, which has been connected with low self-esteem and cyber-bullying. Suicide rates among the same demographics have been rising since the mid-2000s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
