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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Anxiety & Mood Disorders

When Parents Fearing Stigma Delay Inpatient Psychiatric Care the Consequences Can Be Dire

Understanding Inpatient and Residential Care When your teenager receives a diagnosis for a clinical mental health, behavioral, or addiction disorder, it can come as a shock. You may not be prepared for the diagnosis or your responsibilities related to the diagnosis. Your first responsibility is to get your emotions under control and understand that what matters is not what happened leading up to the diagnosis. What matters is what happens

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

I Wish I Were Dead: Why Transgender Teens Present as Suicide Risks and What Parents Can Do

[seriesbox]Parents of LGBTQ + Teens: A Guide to Terminology and Basic Concepts You Should Know LGBTQ+ and Transgender Teens: Using a Teen’s Chosen Name Reduces Depression and Suicide Risk Is Gender-Specific Treatment for Teens Necessary or Does It Exclude LBGTQI+ Teens?[/seriesbox]Transgender Teens at Increased Risk of Suicide Compared to Non-Trans Teens When we write about suicide risk in teens, we include the following warning in every article. Sometimes it appears

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

The Latest Evidence on How the Pandemic Impacted Teens with OCD

At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, mental health experts sounded an alarm. They warned that the pandemic would have a significant negative impact on the mental health of everyone in the country. Adolescent mental health experts warned that it wasn’t only the pandemic itself that would have negative consequences. They worried about the impact of mitigation measures on teenagers, specifically teens diagnosed with: Anxiety disorders Depressive

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

The Risks of Social Media to Adolescent Mental Health

If you’re the parent of a teenager in the year 2021, there’s a good chance you worry about the impact of social media on their mental health. You have good reason to worry. Media headlines over the past several years have presented a consistent message: social media is bad for our teens. Data from reputable sources – not just clickbait news-like sites – appears to support this message, too. Here

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

The Impact of Peer Pressure on Depressed and Anxious Teens – Risks and Warning Signs

Depression and Anxiety Increase Vulnerability to Peer Pressure When we talk about peer pressure, most of us immediately think about high school. Although peer pressure exists in elementary school, escalates in middle school, and permeates college culture on social, academic, and personal levels, high school is the time and place peer pressure appears to exert its most powerful influence over the growing human. This makes perfect sense when we think

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

How Treatment Centers for Teenage Depression Accelerate Mood Stabilization

Treatment for Teen Bipolar Disorder Parents of teens diagnosed with depression often wonder what steps clinicians in an adolescent treatment center will take, at the beginning of treatment, to balance the extreme moods and other up-and-down emotional symptoms their teen experiences. For parents of teens diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BD), this is often their main concern. Since BD is characterized by cyclic movement between manic states and depressive states, finding

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

When Is It Time for Parents to Consider Inpatient Teen Depression Treatment?

Professional Help for Teenage Depression: A Life-Changing Choice We’ll open this article by answering the question posed in the title right away. Then we’ll explain the steps you need to take – or may have taken already – before considering or committing to inpatient teen depression treatment. We won’t make you read through the supporting details first. But in order to understand the answer, we think you should read the

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Parents – How to Handle Anxiety About Sending Your Teen Out-of-State for Treatment

When you learn your teen has a mental health or alcohol/substance use disorder, it can come as a shock. You feel all kinds of emotions. Sadness, worry, fear, and pain are not unusual things to feel in your situation. It’s not unusual to be all over the place, to be honest. You name it, and you’ll probably feel it. It can be a confusing time. You may even be angry

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Suicide Risk In Teens – Body Image, Concussion, Mental Health Issues

Increased Risk for Teen Athletes, Boys and Girls with Body Dysmorphic Disorder Over the past several years, national news media published countless reports on increases in mental health disorders among adolescents (age 12-17) and young adults (age 15-29). Before the coronavirus pandemic began, mental health professionals called it a mental health crisis in our teens and young adults. One major factor leading this wave of reporting was the fact that

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Anger Management for Teens

How to Help Teens Handle Powerful Emotions We all get angry sometimes. Some of us get angry often, while some of us have a sunny disposition by default. We don’t angry very often and don’t get bothered by much. Those of us who do get angry a lot learn how to manage that anger. If we don’t, we have family problems, relationship problems, problems at work, and, in some cases,

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