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Teens: Having a Mental Illness Isn’t Your Fault
Adolescence is a time for exploration, discovery, and fun. It can be a wonderful stage of life. Yet, if you have been diagnosed with a mental illness you might worry about how to tell your friends or...
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Parents Shouldn’t Comment On Daughters Weight
A new study shows parents should not talk about their daughters weight, even when she is normal or healthy. Cornell Food & Brand Lab investigators discovered that commenting on your daughters...
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The Benefits of Behavioral Therapy for Teens
Behavioral therapy is a type of therapy often used with teens and adults who need help changing potentially self-destructive behaviors. Self-destructive behaviors can be symptoms of addiction,...
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Quiz: Are You Hurting More Than Helping A Loved One With Addiction?
Recovery only comes after realizing you need help and seek out treatment. An addict must then make the hard choice to accept their defeat and go into treatment. Some family members or close...
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If Your Teen Has a Mental Illness, Should You Seek Treatment Right Away?
If you recognize symptoms of mental illness in your teen, you may be wondering whether or not to have your teen seen by a mental health provider. In most cases (if not all), seeking assistance for a...
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Parents and Teens – Here’s How to Develop Emotional Awareness
Emotional awareness is the ability to know how you’re feeling and when. It’s common for some teens and adults to be out of touch with their feelings. For instance, instead of feeling a certain...
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Oregon Now Allows You To Not Choose A Gender Identifier
A new ruling in Oregon court has made it possible to allow someone to petition for legally choosing to not be identified by male or female, but rather non-binary, which is a huge leap of progress...
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Reasons For Procrastination
Procrastination is the putting off of a less pleasant task until a later time in substitution of something more enjoyable in the present. Allowing your future self to be responsible for getting...
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Good News: Drug Use is Declining Among Teens
Drinking and the use of drugs among teens can be somewhat expected. Adolescence is a time of experimentation and many teens are doing just that in many areas of life, including drugs and drinking....
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Prince William Pens Letter About Mental Health
Prince William wrote an open letter speaking on the importance of discussing mental health, especially with children so they can gain a greater understanding at an early age. The letter was...
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Celebrities Who Have Overcome Self-Harming
You may believe that all movie stars are infallible and lead glamorous and have always lead happy, fulfilled lives, but in reality, stars are just as vulnerable if not more so than any one of us....
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Mental Illness Occurs in Every Culture Around the World
Teens pay particular attention to social interaction. They have their eye on what’s hot, trendy, and stylish. And they want to be a part of what everyone else is doing – unless it’s their parents...
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Tips to Prevent Substance Abuse in Your Teens
It might be hard to keep your teen from making the right decision when he or she is alone at a party with friends. If you’re not there with your teen to guide them along, will they may a healthy and...
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Teach Yourself To be Calmer
Anger is an easy emotion to let get out of hand, it is also the most destructive and least self serving. What we say while angry often tends to be the things we regret saying the most. So, what...
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Simple Ways To Minimize Stress Today
Stress may not seem like a life threatening feeling, but more often than not stress is the leading cause of doctor’s visits in America. Stress leads to catastrophic physical and mental ramifications...
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How Forgiveness Can Change Your Life
We may all be carrying unnecessary baggage, all while not even realizing the impact it has on us. You may believe you’ve let go of the pain of your past, but until you really dwell on your current...
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What To Do When You Feel Self-Doubt
Self doubt is an ugly beats that creeps in on us at the most inopportune times, before an important job interview, before a major event or presentation. So what do you do when self-doubts decides to...
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How To Avoid An Emotional Outburst
Everyone reacts to anger differently, some can hone their bitterness and simply listen to what is being said (or screamed, really)with respect to the others person’s feelings. While others don’t...
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Teens: Here are Tips for Managing Your Time
If you’re feeling like you have a lot to balance in life, you’re not alone. The adolescent years can include an overwhelming amount of responsibilities. For instance, there’s your social life...
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Foods Linked To Anxiety
What you consume is just as critical to the health of your mind as it is to the health of your body. It’s quite possible what you eat and drink daily can be detrimental to your overall wellness...
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