As a teen, I was troubled, as my previous articles have displayed, so therapy was definitely what was next. My mother researched and read everything to help me find out who I am and stop blaming myself. I also had a problem with authority. I felt they never listened or believed me so I didn't feel the reason to listen to them.

A troubled child, like I said.

My mother didn't know much about troubled kids, therapy or counseling, except for the little she had for herself. My mother researched, fell in love with helping children and went for a second degree in psychology. She graduated the same year I graduated high school, but that's a different story.

My mother has always been more than involved. One of my first therapist/psychiatrist as a child made sure I was so doped up that I didn't know my name or where I was. My mother came to visit and was livid. I didn't need medication, I needed someone to help me through my struggled, abused and terrified mind. Instead, I was given people to look after me who thought it was nothing more than a job.

My mother fixed that, but here I am a mother of a depressed child and I find the same thing. There are therapists who botch paperwork. Those who don't take the time to actually help children who really need help. To many, these kids are nothing more than a paycheck.

Not every person with depression or anxiety has a chemical imbalance, but instead of working with these children and giving them real advice they will diagnose them with medicine first and then try to help them. By that time, the side effects have kicked in and the child's system is depending on those meds to give them the same feelings. Most people who 'go off their meds' are deemed dangerous and unpredictable.

Where are the good therapists? With technology changing every day, these inpatient programs are still going by the basics that didn't work on my generation. The coping skills are cookie cutter, cliche skills that cannot be done in a normal day in the real world. Imagine being bullied, will the bully wait for you to rip paper, or count to ten, or listen to music before he continues? What about when they get a job?

It's as if these acute hospitals and inpatient therapy places are all about numbers and not actually helping children and the ones who are, they get pushed out by politics or rules that show no empathy.

Mental health is a real issue, and we need people who are passionate to help people but we also need to change the process in which it is handled.