**Warning: Distressing** Insights into child mental illness

[Charlotte91]

I'm in tears after reading the 3rd link. How heartbreaking.

[Traveller]

Very sad, I agree that there needs to be a major overhaul to mental health services in America and also in Australia. It doesn't help that mental illness carries with it so much stigma that people are ashamed to admit when they need help, and when they do they are vilified like the blog mother.

[Artechim]

As a parent of a very intelligent and highly strung child, this situation doesn't seem like a very big leap from where we are