What happens when a child's pain is hidden in plain sight. Too often we miss the signs before it's too late. That was true for a teenager I once worked with.He hid his pain behind a bright smile until one night his anxiety spiraled into near lethal self harm and a mobile crisis team was rushed to his home. I got the call close to midnight. I could hear sirens in the background, his parents' voices trembling, and we were heartbroken, wondering, "How did it get this far?" You know, I had taken hard calls befo ...

In tonight's Primetime Focus, let's talk WE'LL TALK ABOUT HOW DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE LOVES THE TROOPS. TODAY, TO EVERY VETERAN, WE LOVE OUR VETERANS. WE SAY THE WORDS TOO OFTEN left unsaid.Thank you for your service. He has a strange way of showing that gratitude. There are about 40 ,000 troops fighting Trump's war with Iran right now.At some point, they will become veterans of the Iran war and will return home to programs that their president has gutted. 28 ,000 staffers at the VA were cut, which is the larg ...

[Music] The very same people that were supposed to help her through this crisis were the very same people that she could not trust. Growing up, we never really talked about mental health in my family. In fact, looking back at it now, it almost feels like it was completely avoided purposely and any disclosure of stress or distress was met with reprimand or comparison instead of just the willingness to listen and to be and to be compassionate. And so what that instilled in me as a young person was that it was ...