Childhood is one of the most impactful stages in one’s life. Your experiences during childhood can shape the way you see and view the world. While many people view childhood as a light-hearted and happy time, many children also experience adverse childhood experiences, otherwise known as childhood trauma. These experiences are often unavoidable, such as …
In a recent article published by the Washington Post, a woman tells the story of how her sister died at the age of 31: depression and suicide killed her. Perhaps if there was more widespread awareness of the dangers and symptoms of ideas of suicide in teens, these situations could be scarce. Suicide in teens …
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1 in 5 females, 1 in 7 males. These are the numbers of children who engage in self-harm ever year. Self-harm in teens is extremely widespread, and while it may seem an absurd problem on the surface – and an easy one to fix – in reality, it runs extremely deep and may be as …
Read more Hurting Others by Hurting Yourself: Spotting Signs of Self-Harm in Teens
As any teenager can tell you, growing up isn’t easy. However, sometimes normal teenage problems swing out of control – whether a result of an underlying mental health issue, peer pressure, or some other factor – and become something that needs to be addressed. While raising a struggling teen may be difficult at times, there …
People don’t talk about depression out in the open. There’s something that stops people from wanting to talk about what they’re feeling inside. It’s a fear of judgment, of feeling like you’re different from everyone else. It’s a stigma. The stigma of depression has definitely gotten less prevalent over the years, but it still very …
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Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is an all-encompassing term that refers to all qualifying developmental disorders, which fall under the symptomatic guidelines of mild to severe autism. Because autism disorder varies greatly in presentation from child to child, there are is wide range and variation of symptoms, skill levels and disability levels that can occur. The term ASD was developed …
You tell your teenager one thing, yet they do another. It is like whatever you say, they are automatically programmed to disagree. You’re instantly taken back to when your little girl or boy was two and finally learned the word “no.” It seemed like for the next few months, that was his or her only response. …
With February declared as the month of love, it is a good time to look at our teens and their relationships. Though 80 percent of parents do not think relationship abuse among teens is an issue, it is much more prevalent than one might realize. One in three adolescents in the U.S. is a victim of physical, sexual, …
Read more Low Teenage Self-Esteem Has Negative Impact on Relationships