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The Disorder Thats Driving 200 Million People Crazy
Anxiety has always been part of the human condition, with accounts of its various manifestations, including acute shyness and stage fright, dating all the way back to classical antiquity. Nonetheless, since the end of the Second World...
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Binge Drinking Reaches Disturbing New Low (A Story About...
There's nothing recreational about putting a bag of wine up your rear end to get drunk, and yet parents should be troubled to learn that's what it has come to for some young men. A recent story out of Tennessee...
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Addicts Too Broke To Seek Treatment Will Love This Good News
A 2008 study conducted by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that there are 20.8 million addicts over the age of 12 in the US who do not seek treatment. This number is rising. Of the total number of untreated...
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What Impact Will Obamacare Have On Teen Treatment
Tragedies like recent school shootings have initiated various conversations about mental health care services. It is often discovered that these criminals suffer from sort of mental illness. Goverment officials have moved...
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What Can Teens and Parents Learn About Drug Treatment...
For parents who have teens struggling with drug addiction, the fear of receiving a late-night call from the police, where they learn their child has died of a drug overdose, is perhaps the scariest thing a parent...
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5 Simple Lessons For Troubled Boys From Some People Who...
Adolescence is a tough time. There's really no way around that. It's only the tiniest minority of boys that squeak through without having to deal with a few pretty serious problems and a million smaller ones. For some boys, the...
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Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones And Also Words Can...
We all know the expression 'sticks and stones will break my bones but words can never hurt me.' It is the refuge children take when bullies unleash an onslaught of namecalling or verbal abuse. Telling someone else that their words can't...
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Too Young and Too Smart: Understanding Child Prodigies
Brandenn Bremmer was ten years old when he began college. He was a normal seeming kid, though obviously brilliant, with an IQ of 160. Think about what you were doing when you were ten. I know what I was doing. I was climbing trees and...
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How Social Media Is Driving A Dangerous New Trend For...
Breaking News Teen girls have seemingly always held onto drastic and in some cases dangerous beliefs when it comes to determining the ideal body type. The prevalence of eating disorders in the lives of young...
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