depression
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How To Get Your Child The Mental Health Care They Need
“Marie” had been helping her 10-year-old navigate an escalating pattern of acting out against himself and his family when things came to a head in one of his therapy sessions. He threatened to hurt himself, and “the provider advised us to take him to the emergency room,” says Marie, a 50-year-old writer in Pennsylvania who…
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How To Feed Yourself When You’re Depressed
2Eating is a prerequisite for life, so it makes perverse sense that, for many people, it’s among the first victims of a depressive episode. Here are some tips on how to eat when you’re feeling depressed.
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What To Do If Your Young Child Talks About Suicide
I came across an advice column in The Guardian recently that weighed on my heart. A mother wrote in to ask for advice because her 10-year-old son had been talking about how nobody cared about him, he wished he’d never been born and his life wasn’t worth living. He had also, she said, mentioned suicide…
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Why Protecting Your Kid’s Down Time Is So Important
We know that kids are over-scheduled and over-worked. We know they have less down time, less time to be bored and less time to play than we did as kids. But what we may not have realised is that all the pressure on students — particularly those in “high-achieving” schools — is causing higher rates…