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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder in Teens: Signs, Diagnosis, and How to Support Your Child

The following is a brief summary from our workshop on Borderline Personality Disorder. For a more in-depth conversation about BPD in teens, check out the video above.  May is BPD Awareness Month May is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Awareness Month. In the spirit of this, we’d like to revisit the amazing workshop conducted last year by our Chief Clinical Officer and licensed marriage and family therapist, Alyson Orcena. Our goal

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May 8, 2025
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Parents

What Parents Need to Know: What Is Chroming and Is It Dangerous?

Can deodorant or nail polish remover kill you? The question, on its face, might sound absurd — but that’s exactly why teens may unknowingly find themselves at risk, should they attempt what’s been coined “the chroming challenge.” This viral trend first gained popularity on TikTok in 2023, as part of a larger uptick in teens experimenting with substances post-lockdown. Since then, there have been multiple highly publicized, accidental deaths associated

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April 25, 2025
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Suicidal Ideation & Self-Harm

7 Ways Parents Can Support Self Harming Teens

Read the full series on Teens & Self-Harm and check out our video workshop! Having a teen who self-harms can be a frightening and disorienting experience for families.  While as parents we can imagine what it means to protect our children from dangers in the outside world, it’s a different experience entirely when our child needs protecting from themselves. Supporting a teen who struggles with self-harm behaviors can be uniquely

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April 18, 2025
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Suicidal Ideation & Self-Harm

5 Warning Signs of Self Harming in Teens

Ask most parents what they would do if someone harmed their child, and you’ll likely get a spirited answer like, “Who am I fighting today?” When we imagine the types of danger our children will face in the world, we may picture ourselves in heroic roles, even using our bodies as a shield or confronting the big bully. But when parents discover that their child is harming themselves, it can

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April 9, 2025
Internet & Social Media

Internet Safety For Teens: 4 Things Every Parent Needs to Know in 2025

As parents, we know that not everything our teen does online (or in life!) is within our control.  Some of us may even feel that our teens are more knowledgeable about the technology we’re trying to protect them from than we are! Even with monitoring software, teens today seem to find workarounds and access websites we’d never want them to see. Their peers could engage in cyberbullying on the same

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February 27, 2025
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Depression

Why Teens Self-Harm and What Parents Need to Know

With self-harm awareness month fast approaching, it’s a timely opportunity for parents to become more informed about what self-harm in teens actually looks like, and how to respond to it. While there are some challenges that we expect to face when we become parents — things like sleepless nights, grocery store tantrums, first days of school, and scraped knees — there are other struggles that we never imagined for our

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February 19, 2025

Parent Guide to Teen Substance Use Disorder Treatment 

It’s not always easy knowing how to help a teenager with a substance use disorder. The overload of complicated information becomes even worse when you’re trying to help a loved one suffering.   This guide carries everything you could want to know about treating substance use disorders and how you can find someone the resources they need. If you have any additional questions, please contact us at (877) 349-6720.   Levels of

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February 17, 2025
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Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders in Teens: 5 Myths and Warning Signs For Parents

If you ask most parents to describe what they think a teen with an eating disorder looks like, their answers tend to be remarkably similar: A very thin girl, looking down tearfully as she weighs herself on the scale for the fifth time that day. Of course, some teens with eating disorders are very thin girls who weigh themselves compulsively, and they need and deserve compassionate support. However, you might

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February 11, 2025
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Borderline Personality Disorder in Teens: 5 Things Parents Should Know About BPD

As a clinical team that specializes in adolescent mental health, we’ve met countless families who are navigating the unique challenges of parenting a teen with BPD.  When we first begin working together, parents often express feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, and in some cases, feeling hopeless. This is usually because they’ve tried to get answers and help for their teen in the past, but nothing seemed to be enough. But the truth

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February 4, 2025
Mental Health

5 Mental Wellness Goals For Teens, According to Therapists

January is mental wellness month, and also a time when many of us consider resetting our goals for the year, sometimes in the form of New Year’s resolutions. While this can be an exciting process, others may be feeling pressured to overhaul their life — whether that’s chasing a fad diet, overexercising in pursuit of a “glow-up,” or cutting out things like coffee, sugar, or social media. The impulse to

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January 24, 2025
Parents

Teens and Mood Swings: What is Emotional Dysregulation and How Can Parents Help?

Every parent or guardian was, at some point, a teenager themselves. And depending on your life experience, it can be easy to assume, when a teen under your care is struggling, that the phase or mood will pass — chalking it up to hormones, a developing brain, or simply a rite of passage. But after one too many slammed doors, raised voices, and hurtful words you never imagined saying or

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January 16, 2025
Depression

Beyond Sadness: Understanding the Complex Symptoms of Teen Depression

Speak to any parent who has a teen with depression, and most will tell you that somewhere along the way, there was a nagging feeling that they couldn’t shake: “Is this really normal?” At first, the anger, moodiness, and withdrawal seemed like the typical growing pains of adolescence. But as time went on, that initial dip became a steeper decline: their teen seemed to lose their spark, instead becoming tired,

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January 8, 2025