When a teenager commits the awful act of suicide, the first question people want to know is why they took their own life in the first place. Committing suicide during the teenage years becomes a devastating loss since a teen has their whole life to live. Discerning what happened to an emotional and hormonal teen…
People experience shifts in their biological clock every year as winter begins. At this time, daylight savings brings shorter days and a significant change in the amount of sunlight people experience. These shifts can cause depression and fatigue that might seem like the winter blues, but, in fact, it a condition called Seasonal Affective Disorder…
Depression and suicidal thoughts are the most prevalent mental issues that affect adolescents today. The increase of depression in teens is growing at an alarming rate with as many as 1 in 5 teens being diagnosed with clinical depression. The question we all want to know is how could this be happening to our youth?…
Taking a teen to their routine check up usually doesn’t involve a screening for mental health issues like depression. With a growing number of teens experiencing mental health disorders like depression and anxiety, as well as a growing number of teens turning to drug and alcohol abuse, primary care physicians are being seen as a…
Most psychiatric conditions develop before the age of twenty four years old. Mental health conditions like depression often develop in adolescence but are overlooked, leaving adolescents and teens undiagnosed as well as untreated. Teenagehood, the common angst and fluctuation of hormones, is enough of an answer for most parents to overlook the beginning symptoms of…
