You did the hard part. You noticed, you had the conversation, your teenager agreed. Then you called, and somebody gave you a number of months. Chris Coulter on the teen mental health waitlist nobody prepares Canadian families for: the two queues nobody explains, the wait that happens before the wait, what the months cost with a kid who just took a risk on you, and what can happen in the gap.

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