It's not easy for a child who has had mental health issues to make a successful transition into adulthood. But even children who have symptoms that are mild enough that they wouldn't be diagnosed are more likely to struggle with life as adults, a study finds.
Children and teenagers with a psychiatric disorder had six times higher odds of having at health, legal, financial and social problems as adults, according to astudy published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry. Those with milder symptoms were three times more likely to have problems as adults.
[For more of this story, written by Ina Yang, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/he...-cause-trouble-later]
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