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Depression, eating disorders, self-injury, manic depression (bi-polar), anxiety and other mental health disorders are now being diagnosed by more and more medical doctors compared to previous decades. Mental health is just now becoming an accepted term in our society and families who become more aware of their mental health history can often take advantage early in life with treatment and programs to reduce symptoms and side effects. ScottCounseling offers numerous article on mental health and the importance of keep yourself mentally fit.
How to Help My Child Stop Cutting
This is the fifth ScottCounseling article on cutting and self-injury . This article focuses on some step-by-step approaches parents and cutters can use as strategies to put an end to the behavior of cutting. Other cutting articles by ScottCounseling include:
Cutting: Self Injury Facts & Statistics
What is Cutting & Self Injury?
Why Do People Cut or Self Injure?
Treatment For Cutting or Self Injury
Steps To Take To End Cutting & Self […]
Is My Child Becoming A Serial Killer?
With the release of weekly news across America of the increase of domestic violence, abuse and murder, more parents are beginning to ask this question: “Could I be raising a future criminal?” Parents need to become aware of the clues that their child is beginning to display the profile of a potentially dangerous predator or serial killer.
For the most violent of criminals, there are warning […]
Treatment For Eating Disorders
According to the Alliance for Eating Disorder Awareness, over 50,000 individual will die from and eating disorder. Eating Disorders, the Journal of Treatment and Prevention poses that as many as 80 percent of all women exhibit some signs of an eating disorder at some stage in their life. An estimated 19 to 30 percent of college females are diagnosed with some form of an eating disorder. As many […]
Types of Eating Disorders
There are three types of eating disorders recognized and treated by medical professionals. The three eating disorders include: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS).
There are numerous themes that are similar across the spectrum of these three eating disorders. They include:
- Dieting & Change in Dieting Patterns
- Weight Concerns
- Anxiety
- Control Issues
- Depression
- Perfectionism
- Drug & Alcohol Use
- Media Exploitation
- Trauma
- Isolation
Anorexia Nervosa
Individuals who have diagnosed with anorexia nervosa typically have conditions […]
What Causes Eating Disorders?
Specific Causes of Eating Disorders
Over 8 million Americans have been diagnosed with an eating disorder. Of all the mental illnesses, eating disorders have the highest mortality (death) rate. So, what causes this disease?
Eating disorders do occur for a reason. The three main reason are presented below.
Biological Reasons for Eating Disorders
Genetics
Physical Body Changes
Puberty/Menopause
Food Restrictions
NeurotransmittersPsychological Reasons For Eating Disorders
Stress
Lack of […]
Mental Health In Children
How children think, feel, and act in order to face the situation in a child’s life is mental health. It is how children look at themselves, their lives, and the people they care about. It helps them determine how to handle stress, social challenges, evaluate options, and solve problems. Like physical health, mental health is important and needs to be taken seriously. Mental health […]
Treatment For Cutting or Self-Injury
How to Help a Friend or Family Member Who Cuts or Practices Self-Injury
It is often very hard to come to terms with the fact that someone you care about is physically hurting themselves. There are, however, things that you can do and steps to take.
Below are some helpful tips to help someone who self-injures:
- Understand that self-harming behavior is about control- which in and of itself […]
Why Do Teens Cut or Self-Injure?
The act of “ cutting” or making scratches on arms, legs or other body parts is not a halfhearted attempt at suicide. In fact, it’s an effort by the self-injury individual to feel alive. Individuals who cut or self-injure often perform this act as a way to handle life, not to die, or end the life. Placing Cuts on the body is not the only way […]
What is Cutting & Self-Injury?
Statistics on teen cutting are hard to come by because so few studies have been done on the subject. In 2002, the British Medical Journal published an article that found 13 percent of British 15- and 16-year-olds purposely injured themselves. In the United States, best estimates indicate that one in every 200 girls between 13 and 19 years old, or one-half of one percent, cut themselves regularly. […]
Cutting: Self-Injury Facts & Statistics
Self-Injury Behavior
Over the past year, one in five females and one in seven males have engaged in some form of self-injury type behavior. The growing concern of “cutting” is now on the forefront of many mental health agencies, schools and youth leaders concerns for young adults today. This article provides the reader with some basic facts and statistics on this interesting, but often scary […]
