The Best Options for Mental Health Treatment in Los Angeles
Mental Health Treatment Helps Teens Become The Best Version of Themselves The past year has been eventful, to say the least. The events started early. The early spring brought the pandemic. The summer brought months of protests around racial and social justice. The fall brought the national elections, followed by upheaval around various election-related events […]
My Teen has Depression, Anxiety, Psychosis and is Cutting: What Behavioral Health Inpatient Facility Would Be the Best Choice?
Treatment for Depression, Anxiety, Psychosis, and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Teens There are some mental health disorders in teenagers that are straightforward. As are their diagnoses. That’s not to say that any mental health disorder is simple or easy for the teen who has it. Each teen with a disorder such as depression or anxiety has […]
Does My Teen Have Paranoia?
What Clinical Paranoia Looks Like in Teens Your teenage son mutters about people following him. He says everyone is against him. Your teenage daughter is suspicious about friends and family. She insists people spy on her. Are they clinically paranoid? Do they have schizophrenia? Is it severe anxiety? Or is it nothing to worry about? […]
What Is Emotional Dysregulation in Teens?
Emotional Dysregulation, Mental Health Disorders, and the Role of Treatment If you’re the parent of a teenager, you probably have direct, experiential knowledge of the ups and downs of their emotional life. And since you were once a teenager and lived through adolescence yourself, you can think back to what your emotional life was like […]
Intergenerational Trauma: How Parents’ Childhoods Can Impact Their Kids
Parents pass down all kinds of traits to their children, from hair and eye color to freckles. Research shows they might also pass down the trauma of their own childhood. Early life experiences, such as neglect and abuse, can impact the structure and function of the brain. The effects of these experiences can appear in […]
Behavioral Health Treatment Centers Help Teens Overcome Trauma
The word trauma gets tossed around a lot in contemporary informal speech. When something bad happens to us, we say things like: “That was traumatic.” or “I was totally traumatized.” And quite often, we mean it. We have a bad experience and it has a negative emotional impact on us. Maybe we had a near-miss […]
What Is Medical Trauma in Teens?
You’ve heard of trauma. And you know all about medical illness. But have you heard of medical trauma? Medical trauma occurs after someone undergoes a serious medical procedure or illness. Teens diagnosed with chronic or terminal illnesses may struggle with medical trauma, as can those with life-threatening injuries or surgeries. Research shows, for example, that […]
April is Stress Awareness Month: What are Adverse Childhood Experiences?
Each year during Stress Awareness Month, we publish a series of articles about stress: what it is, why we experience it, and what we can do about it. We also offer statistics on the prevalence of stress in our communities and advice on how to handle stress that becomes chronic, toxic, or dangerous to our […]
April is Stress Awareness Month: What is Toxic Stress?
Each year during Stress Awareness Month, we publish a series of articles about stress. We talk about what it is, why we experience it, and what we can do about it. We also offer statistics on the prevalence of stress in our communities and advice on how to handle stress that becomes chronic, toxic, or […]
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Early Trauma and Adult Mortality
Professionals working in clinical medicine and general healthcare have known about the long-term effects of early trauma on the development of chronic disease in adulthood for over twenty years. Until recently, however, most of these professionals worked in mental health, and understood early trauma in terms of its impact on psychological issues – mood and […]