Children with Mental Health Issues - What to Do When All Else Fails?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
As a parent, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the amount of information, helpful or not, when it comes to better parenting. As a result, parents are often experimenting with multiple techniques, one after another. However, every kid is different, and parenting philosophies are anything but one-size-fits-all. In this clip, taken from Dr. Daniel Amen's television special "Raising Mentally Strong Kids", Dr. Amen gives practical advice for what to do when it seems like you've exhausted your options without getting results.
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| 0:00.0 | Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse. |
| 0:07.0 | Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day. |
| 0:13.0 | As I mentioned earlier, we are seeing an epidemic rise in anxiety, depression, ADHD, and addictions in young people, |
| 0:24.8 | unlike anything ever seen before. |
| 0:29.0 | In fact, I believe we are on the front edge of a tidal wave of mental health issues among the young. |
| 0:38.3 | It is often years from the time a child first starts to struggle |
| 0:43.3 | until they get help. |
| 0:45.3 | You cannot be mentally strong or have emotional freedom |
| 0:51.3 | if you are a prisoner of your mind. The numbers are staggering. In a recent study, |
| 0:58.9 | 57% of teenage girls report being persistently sad. 30% of girls have thought of suicide, |
| 1:07.8 | 24% have planned suicide, and 13% or 1 in 8 girls have actually attempted suicide. |
| 1:17.1 | Nothing about this is okay. Young males are also struggling with increasing rates of ADHD, |
| 1:25.0 | depression, and addiction. How do you know when it's time to seek professional help |
| 1:30.3 | for the young people in your life? |
| 1:33.3 | It's time to seek help if their thoughts, their feelings, |
| 1:36.3 | or their behaviors interfere with their ability |
| 1:40.3 | to be successful in their relationships |
| 1:43.3 | with their family or friends at school or work or how |
| 1:47.9 | they feel about themselves. The first step is never medication by itself. Be wary of any |
| 1:55.7 | professional where medicine is the first and only answer. Is a board certified child and adult psychiatrist. |
| 2:02.7 | I believe in using medication when it's appropriate, |
| 2:05.8 | but it is never the first and only thing I do. |
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