Obsessive-compulsive disorder can take over a teenager’s life quietly. The hours spent rechecking, the rituals before bed, the questions asked again and again for reassurance. By the time many parents realize what is happening, their teen is exhausted, falling behind, and ashamed of thoughts they cannot turn off. OCD is not rare in young people. …
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Teen Residential Dual Diagnosis Programs
When a teen is using substances and struggling with depression, anxiety, or trauma at the same time, treating one problem and ignoring the other rarely works. The anxiety drives the drinking. The drinking deepens the depression. Each condition feeds the other, and your teen gets stuck in the middle. This is more common than most …
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Rehab for Adolescents: What to Know
Finding out your teen is using drugs or alcohol is frightening. Finding out that talking, grounding, and weekly counseling have not been enough is harder still. If you are now searching for rehab for adolescents, you are not alone, and you are not overreacting. Substance use and mental health struggles often travel together in teens. …
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Hyperactivity in Teenagers
The teen who cannot sit through dinner. Who taps, fidgets, interrupts, and bounces between tasks without finishing any of them. Who seems to run on a motor that never quite shuts off. Parents of a hyperactive teen often hear “they’ll grow out of it.” Sometimes that is true. Often it is not, and the teen …
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Teen Xanax Addiction: Xanax Abuse in Teen Boys & Girls
The misuse of prescription drugs among teens continues to grow. According to recent statistics, 2.5% of 12- to 17-year-olds abuse prescriptions annually, while 7.1% of high school seniors have abused prescription drugs in their lifetime. Alprazolam, brand name Xanax, “xannies”, or “xans,” is one of the most commonly misused prescriptions. It is commonly prescribed as …
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