With Nowhere To Turn, More Psychiatric Clients Are Ending Up In The ER

The situation is even worse for children. According to the American Academy of Kid and Adolescent Psychiatry, there are only 8,300 practicing child and teen psychiatrists in the nation for more than 15 million patients because age group.

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But her family told her it was dangerous to try to be an author under the repressive Suharto government. She relied on psychiatry, which appeared like a safer way to get into characters’ heads. But in 1998, as she was turning 21 and enrolled in medical …