“Doc, I’m not sure what’s wrong with me. I’m tired a lot. I can’t sleep and when I can sleep I still have no energy when I wake up. I cry easily and I seem to get angry real easily too. I just need some sleep.” After running through some medical and behavioral causes for [...]
My teen won’t go to school. They seem to be staring off into space a lot. Depression is the most common cause of suicide and suicide is the second leading cause of death in teens. Teens who are depressed rarely have the coping skills to realize this, or at least realize the importance of it [...]
Teens that have lost a loved one to suicide are three times more likely to commit suicide. Knowing this information may save another teen’s life if you are the parent of that grieving teen. Being a survivor of a loved one’s suicide can cause feelings of anger and frustration at the helplessness of it [...]
Depression is typically someone who is sad, keeps to themselves, doesn’t eat, or loses interest in things they once cared about. But what about anger, fighting, other aggressive behavior and initiating violence at school or on the street, is that depression too? Depression can also be angry. After all, depression is anger turned inward. [...]
How is school? Never settle for a half answer. If school is going well, your teen is doing okay even great. School is a good way of taking the emotional temperature of your teen. So when school is not going well, be concerned and become investigative rather than accusatory. 1. Grades They are what [...]
It just doesn’t make sense for teens to have so few needs met that they have to cut into themselves
They are aware that they will die, but they are not always aware that things will get better if they DO not die
