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What Are 5 Questions You Should Ask Your Therapist?
When teens are going through challenging times, such as difficulties at school or family problems, they may feel more comfortable talking to a therapist than a member of the family or teacher. They may be experiencing a wide range of emotions such as anger, anxiety, and sadness, or they may feel overwhelmed by what is…
Read MoreHow To Handle Your Mental Health and the School-Life Balance?
High school, under the best of circumstances, is stressful. This academic year, students of all ages were thrown a curveball in the form of a global health and economic crisis that has changed how education looked for most of the academic year. Moreover, recent events may change how the school looks and functions for years…
Read MoreWhat Lessons Can You Learn From Therapy?
The decision to attend a residential therapy program such as that offered here at Hillcrest can be one of the most challenging choices your teen and your family will make. In their young lives, teens have not had to face the emotions associated with being away from their family, friends, and areas of comfort before.…
Read MoreHere’s Everything You Need to Know About Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness most known for the extreme shifts in mood experienced by those who have the diagnosis. Bipolar disorder is a very common mental illness. It is estimated that approximately 2.5 million adults in the United States are diagnosed with it.
Read MoreTalking With Your Troubled Teen? Keep These Tips In Mind
Parenting a teenager is never easy, even during the best of times. As the COVID-19 pandemic marches across the globe, it is certainly reasonable to say that these are not the best of times. Throughout the majority of the United States, most states have enacted stay at home orders and outlined social distancing guidelines in…
Read MoreWhat Can You Expect After Residential Treatment?
For many people who live with a mental health disorder, including eating disorders, making a choice to go into residential treatment is not only one of the most challenging and difficult but also one of the most vital steps on their path to recovery. For families of teens who are experiencing these struggles, parents must…
Read MoreManaging Your Eating Disorder While At Home
Eating disorders are about more than food. They are highly complex health conditions that often require the intervention of both medical and mental health experts to alter both their course and their potential effects. In the United States alone, an estimated twenty million women and ten million men have or have had an eating disorder…
Read MoreMental Health and Making New Routines
Earlier this spring, when schools closed across the country, many believed it was a temporary measure. The overwhelming thought was that within a few weeks, everything would go back to “normal.” Parents who were working from home would go back to the office, businesses would reopen, and kids would return to school. Within a few…
Read MoreStaying Social While Social Distancing
As the lives of our teens’ transition from the daily cycle of school, sports, work, and homework to school from home, no sports, no jobs, and social distancing practices, social media has become a more significant part of their lives than ever. There are both positive and negative sides to this influx in social media…
Read MoreTeen Mental Health and COVID-19
Being a teenager is challenging under even the best of circumstances. These are the years of life where many of the most significant events occur. Things like graduation, first dates, first loves and first break-ups, proms, and the list goes on. Unfortunately for teens in 2020, during the time of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there…
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