The Root of the Growing Mental Illness Epidemic in Elementary Children

This research determined important contributions to the mental illness epidemic in elementary children to find if mental illness in current American society is based on bias or science. Some of the researched contributions include use of technology, family dynamics, proper use of medical terminology, physical health, and the diagnosis process, and more. Many recent articles supported the possibility that mental health awareness has become too common, resulting in overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment in elementary children. In all, society views mental illness through a different lens to encourage victims of mental illness to reach out for treatment, but the added attention has caused people to look too hard for a diagnosis that is not there. When considering child development, the actions can be considered learned behavior, increasing the mental illness epidemic numerically. Speculation arises when the evidence is compared to consider if mental illness is based on scientific proof or bias observation