JUST FOR FUN! Having a troubled teen can really bring you down. Enough with all the sadness, let’s have some fun. I just want to tell you how I am feeling … never going to tell a lie … I’m never going to let you down… I just want to tell you how I am [...]
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Her solution to assuaging her emotional pain is to distract herself from it by inflicting physical pain. Physical pain is something she can control; it is straightforward; it is easy to understand; it demands attention NOW. Ironically (and effectively), it helps her to numb out, to forget.
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Article about teens and the growing trend of teens and mental illness. Reports of early teen drug use and hidden depression. Teens may feel like a failure and don’t want to disappoint.
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I feel I am in a unique position to ease the worry a parent may have when placing their teen with our program and perhaps more broadly at other RTC’s as well. I felt I could share a bit of where I am coming from as a residential staff, I take pride in the Treatment Team meetings, I consider them a powerful demonstration of the care and concern that the staff has for each individual teen.
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This is a list of how my son existed and was able to exist for five nights without a phone or money as a teen runaway. While he was gone we were constantly speculating how he was able to exist, where he may be living and what he might be doing. He was actually more prepared [...]
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A week ago tonight my struggling teen ran away from the group home he was living in. Previously he was at a residential treatment center in Utah and we were trying to transition him back home. Two years ago my son ran away and it was the most sinking helpless feeling I “had” ever experienced. [...]
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It was just over a week ago that I hung up the new calendar for the year. As each new year begins I am always hopeful this is going to be the best year ever; trouble free, no health problems, all family members are stable and on deck. Well, reality has it that January 1 [...]
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This is a safety video for kids in the UK, Stop, Look and Listen. But think how different life would be if you took the time to do this when making every day decisions, not just when attempting to cross a street. Great graphics!!
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