Half of Scottish teens in mental health services need adult psychiatric care

Hundreds of thousands of Scottish children experience severe mental health conditions requiring ongoing specialist care into adulthood, with significant burden on health systems and individual development.

A landmark Scottish study spanning three decades and nearly half a million lives has quietly redrawn the map of mental illness — revealing that the children who enter psychiatric care rarely leave it behind. Those who received help as teenagers now account for nearly half of all adult psychiatric hospital days in Scotland, a proportion so far beyond prior estimates that it demands a reckoning with how medicine has understood, and misunderstood, the long arc of mental suffering. The findings arrive not as a crisis discovered, but as one finally made visible — and with them, a call to build the

Half of Scottish teens in mental health services need adult psychiatric care

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