Mental Health 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.
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. ...
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...
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...
Can Too Much TV Cause Teen Depression?
Researchers from the University of Pittsburg assessed the risk of depression among a sample of 4,142 middle and high school students and found that too much television or on computer games may seriously affect teens’ mental health. Dr. Brian A. Primack, M.D., of the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues reported their findings in the February...
Panic Attacks: Ten Things To Do!
How To Survive a Panic Attack For some people, panic attacks are awful. For others, it just a short feeling that last for a short period of time…and, it goes away shortly. This article, Adapted from Fensterheim, H. and Doer, J., Ten Commandments to Remember During a Panic Attack “Stop Running Scared!” may provide readers with...
Suicide Help: Who To Call
I Want To Live According to the American Association of Suicidology, over 30,000 individual in U.S. commit suicide. The majority of these individuals are white males. For every successful suicide there are approximately 25 failed attempts. Although males suicide is achieved at a higher rate, the attempt rate for females is higher. Suicide is...
Anorexia: Signs, Symptoms & Medical Concerns
Signs and Symptoms of Anorexia Anorexia (full name- anorexia nervosa) is an eating disorder characterized by a significant weight loss caused by excessive dieting. The cause of this illness in women, and now, an increasing number of men, is motivated by the strong desire to be thin and/or the fear of becoming obese.Anorexia is a...
Bulimia: Sign & Symptoms
Bulimics purge their food as a method to avoid calories. This act often involves vomiting and laxative abuse. Other forms of purging can involve excessive exercise, fasting, use of diuretics, diet pills and enemas. All eating disorder can be harmful as well as fatal. Individuals who display the following signs and symptoms need medical attention....
Bulimia: A Treatable Eating Disorders
Bulimia: Purging Food Bulimia is an eating disorder that displays a pattern and cycle of binge eating followed by purging to try and rid the body of unwanted calories. Bulimia and the act of binging are different for all individuals. For one individual, binging (eating lots of food at one time) may range from 1000...
Eating Disorders: What Parents Need To Know
Eating Disorders When people hear of someone with an eating disorder they often assume the person has a food or diet problem. Eating disorders are not a sign that a person has a problem with their diet or the food that they eat, but a sign that there’s underlying problem(s) in their life that that...
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