Children's Mental Illness:
Warning Signs
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My job is all about understanding and helping families through stressful situations. My clients often worry that their reaction isn’t “normal.” I tell them, “Your reaction is likely not only normal, but healthy.”
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Children and adolescents often experience depressive symptoms in a different way than adults. Since these signs are less intuitive than some of the more common symptoms, they are easy to overlook.
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Since some of the diagnostic criteria for ADHD and anxiety can seem similar, the differences between the two diagnoses can be very confusing!
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When your happy-go-lucky child turns into an irritable, secretive, and moody teenager, how do you know whether they are exhibiting typical teen behavior or something more serious like depression?
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Anxious children react to their environment in a variety of ways - some of which parents may find surprising! Often, a child diagnosed with an anxiety disorder will behave like an angry, sad or disruptive child.
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Recognizing the warning signs of drug use/abuse in youth isn’t easy. Recognizing those warning
signs in our own children is even harder in part…
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A mental illness is a condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling or mood. Such conditions may affect someone's ability to relate to others and function each day.
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The following are some of the warning signs that a child may be struggling with mental illness.
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Soad Michelsen, MD, president and senior medical director of Southwest Psychiatric Physicians, presents a Case Study of a Child with Mental Illness.
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