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Changing mood and energy (aka intense highs or lows). Acting uncharacteristically angry or irritable. Feeling anxious, depressed, fearful, or hopeless.
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Having unexplained aches and pains, such as headaches, rashes, and gastrointestinal issues or fatigue.
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Struggling to perform everyday activities or deal with day-to-day problems. Worrying a lot of the time or feeling guilty but not knowing why.
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Not eating and/or sleeping enough, or eating and/or sleeping more than usual. Increasing or decreasing sex drive.
Showing a lack of interest in self-care. Leaning heavily on substances to cope.
Sharing suicidal thoughts or thoughts of self-harm.
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Do you have experience treating people with problems similar to mine?
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Have you worked with clients who share my culture, background, and/or identity?
Question no. 2
What is your philosophy and approach to treatment? How would we assess my progress?
Question no. 3
How do you create a safe space for your clients?
Question no. 4
How often should we see each other? What would a typical session be like?
Question no. 5
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World Survey of Mental Illness Stigma, Journal of Affective Disorders, 2016
Emergency departments: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Here is the number of U.S. patient visits to physician offices and emergency departments with mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders as the primary diagnosis over the course of 2016.
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Percentage of U.S. adults who received various treatment/s for their mental health in 2019.
Receiving treatment
Percentage of adults who say they’d be uncomfortable talking about their mental health and with whom.
Discussing mental health
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The percentage of adults experiencing recent symptoms of an anxiety or a depressive disorder increased by 5% between August 2020 and February 2021.
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When you're overwhelmed, try to:
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For parents
Try to model healthy ways of handling anxiety. Let them see you manage it calmly, tolerate it and feel good about getting through it.
POINTER no. 5
Think things through with the child. For some, having a plan can reduce the uncertainty in a healthy, effective way.
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Encourage your child to talk about their feelings with open-ended questions that respect their feelings without empowering their fears.
POINTER no. 3
Express positive — but realistic — expectations that give them confidence you’re not going to ask them to do something they can’t handle.
POINTER no. 2
Instead of trying to remove stressors that trigger it, help them learn to tolerate their anxiety and function as well as they can.
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When children are chronically anxious, even well-meaning parents can fall into a negative cycle and, not wanting a child to suffer, actually aggravate the child’s anxiety.
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The goal isn’t to eliminate anxiety, but to help a child manage it.
Tantrums and outbursts are usually signs that kids are struggling with feelings they don’t have the skills to manage.
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Knowing what makes kids act out is the first step to finding solutions.
Knowing what makes kids act out is the first step to finding solutions.
Common causes of behavior problems
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Anxiety manifests in a surprising variety of ways in part because it is based on a physiological response to a threat in the environment that maximizes the body’s ability to either face danger or escape danger.
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Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) find it unusually difficult to concentrate on tasks, pay attention, sit still and control impulsive behavior.
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Learning and development disorders are conditions that interfere with a child’s ability to process information and acquire skills in language, speech, reading and/or mathematics.
Learning Disorders
Children who have trouble processing sensory information can have extreme and confusing behavior when their senses are overwhelmed.
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All kids have their ups and downs, but if yours is unusually irritable, sad or withdrawn for a prolonged period of time they may be showing signs of depression.
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder marked by two unusual kinds of behaviors: deficits in communication and social interaction, and restricted or repetitive behaviors.
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