“Fifty percent of all mental health conditions start to appear before the age of fourteen, and 20 percent of children between the ages of three and seven have a diagnosable mental health condition.” This sobering statistic appears in the introduction of “You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers,” the new book from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and authored by Dr. Christine M. Crawford, child psychiatrist and NAMI’s associate medical director.
The COVID-19 pandemic has added to the dilemma, she writes, “causing a dramatic increase in the rates of depression and anxiety experienced by all kids.”
