Childhood is the backbone for children to learn things on their own, but sometimes, children experience things that make them struggle throughout their adult life.

Last Wednesday, a study published in JAMA Psychiatry stated that those children and teenagers who experience or live with a psychiatric disorder probably will have six times or higher odds of having problems in the social, legal, financial and most especially health aspect of their life as adults. Meanwhile, those who had milder symptoms will have three or more times problems when they reach adulthood, according to NPR org.

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The new research from Duke University suggests that there are lots of disorders linking to the disrupted transition to adulthood, the common examples of childhood mental disorders are anxiety, depression and ADHD, which will fall under the behavioural disorders, CBC News reports.

The result of their study found that those children having a disorder were six times higher to experience at least one of what the researchers describe as adverse outcomes in adulthood, these are teenage pregnancy, high school dropouts, and addictions. They added that, they were also nine times higher to experience two or more of these outcomes, it includes the social, legal, financial, and health domain that are indicators of impeded functioning over a long period of time, the researchers said.

William Copeland, a clinical psychologist and epidemiologist, who was also a co-author in the study said, "The kind of outcomes we were looking at in adulthood were things that we thought were real signs of functioning having been compromised, I think what this suggests is these kind of disorders and these types of problems can put these kids on certain trajectories that it's really difficult to get off."

Copeland added that only about 40 percent of the children who will be getting treatment that they need for psychiatric disorders and there are even fewer who have borderline problems that are being treated.

In the United States, Copeland said that, their big problem is that with mental health, most of the children don't get any treatment, while those who do, don't get what they would consider optimal care, and because of that, the problems keep on going longer that they would cost too much effort and money and eventually they would cost to higher damaged lives,Health canal has learned.

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