“Treat mental health problems early, avoid trouble later” is the headline for an article today in the Halifax, Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald on mental illness in children and youth.  The main source cited is Dr. Stan Kutcher:

“Caught early, the mental disorders that might otherwise derail young lives can be treated very effectively, said Dr. Stan Kutcher, an IWK Health Centre psychiatrist and Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health at Dalhousie University.”

Unfortunately, this bold, grandiose claim doesn’t square with any scientific evidence that CMM has ever seen. So we’ve sent a letter to Dr. Kutcher personally.  We requested of Dr. Kutcher: “Could you please forward some scientific references… that clearly establish that mental disorders can  be effectively diagnosed and cured or ‘treated effectively’ in children, with unequivocal long term benefits for those children?”

So stay tuned for the sure-to-be-rivetting developments… Are we at CMM going to be forced at last to swallow our own pathetic lack of knowledge of psychiatric science? Or…  what else might happen…?