“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 [...]
Whether your teen tells you or not, they have a lot of insecurities. A lot. And to be honest, why shouldn’t they. Teens have tons of questions in their head about tons of things. They don’t always feel like they can ask or should ask you all of their questions, but whether or not they [...]
You know that freak out thing your teen does when you ask a simple question and they start yelling and waving their hands and ranting about how you always do this and why cant you do that because it’s so obvious they’re in the middle of … That’s a stressed teen. Sure it’s called being [...]
You may not know if you know someone like this until you piss them off. Passive aggressive is a term mental health workers use to describe someone who seems to be happy around you and can act like there is nothing wrong, but the mistake you made or the disappointment you caused them before this [...]
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 [...]
I know my teen was in the emergency room because they drank themselves into a coma, but I want to talk to you about their acne. Their acne seems so bad. Really? Acne is your priority? There’re times when you either choose to ignore the significance of something or you don’t understand the significance of [...]
It isn’t that your teen shouldn’t have one. It’s just that they shouldn’t let it disable them. Who among us doesn’t have an insecurity?! Linus yells this from the top of Snoopy’s house. Watching The Peanuts as a kid was great, but as an adult you hopefully understand the souls of these supposed children who [...]
