Is your child suffering from spells of intense fear or discomfort? They may be experiencing panic attacks. These can cripple an adolescent’s development and progress. They are often hit with no warning and most adolescents are not equipped to deal with them. Unmanaged attacks can lead to increased issues such as severe anxiety or depression. …
Being a teenager comes with a unique set of challenges, with academic-related stress and pressures causing anxiety in many students. This anxiety can be compounded with the uncertainty of today’s academic structure in light of the global pandemic. Teenage anxiety surrounding school can impact learning and academic success, but awareness of this anxiety and intervention …
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Social anxiety disorder involves an intense fear or phobia of social and performance situations. Although most teenagers go through periods of normal anxiety related to the changes that go along with adolescence, those with SAD experience fear that is out of proportion to the situations that they face. For some teenagers, social anxiety becomes chronic, …
Anxiety can quickly become all-consuming in a teenagers’ life. The symptoms of anxiety may become a lot for them to manage and cause them to struggle in all aspects of life. As a parent, seeing your child struggle with anxiety can leave you feeling helpless and unsure of what to do. Help for an anxious …
Anxiety can be summed up with one simple definition — it is a normal reaction to stress. However, although most of us do react anxiously from time to time, some people react very strongly even to everyday activities such as public speaking or taking exams. Surprisingly, even going on a date is too much for …
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Is your teen showing signs of social isolation? Adolescents will often face many social challenges and insecurities during their teen years. When teens have trouble dealing with these things, they may experience the negative effects of social isolation. Social isolation is when one feels like an outcast to society and perhaps they have lost sight …
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A little bit of back to school stress is normal. The transition from relaxed summer life to structured school life isn’t an easy one and is fully expected to run into some bumps–but for some students, it’s more of a Mount Everest rather than a small hill. The root of serious back to school stress …
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When it comes to anxiety disorders in teens, many parents believe that it could never happen to their child. But research and statistics say otherwise. Around 1 in 4 teens will struggle with anxiety at some point and 6 percent of all teens will suffer from a “severe” anxiety disorder. That makes the odds of …
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The healing effects of being out in nature have been well known for many years. Taking a walk in the park, or a long hike out in the wilderness can calm you down in a matter of minutes. But now there’s solid evidence that nature therapy can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Nowadays, our …
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Mindfulness based therapy seems to be the new, up and coming technique for changing thinking in adolescents. As more and more research comes out in support of it, more and more professionals and programs have been integrating it into their practices. ScienceDaily recently published an article overviewing yet another study showing the power of mindfulness …
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