One in five children will suffer from depression before their 18th birthday. Suicide rates are unacceptably high amongst our youth today, the saddest part being the motives behind these suicides, and the reasons that drive these severe onsets of depression. Anxiety is not a ‘small issue.’ If your child is an excessive worrier, suffering from the…
Parents with delusional and other personality disorders are incredibly difficult to live with. Parenting advice and magazines abound but there is a dearth of information available for children with challenging parents. What are some of the circumstances and challenges that children with trying parents encounter? Society teaches that parents are at the head of the…
Project 50, a service program launched by the L.A.’s county supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, was an initiative to find and house 50 of skid row’s worst homeless cases. The motive of “housing first” aimed to find housing for vagrants of the 50 square foot block along L.A.’s notorious skid row. Candidates for Project 50 weren’t mandated…
College is a transitional period of life that promises enormous growth and with it, overwhelming amounts of change. For the first time in their lives, many young people find themselves completely or semi self-sufficient. Teen movies and melodrama miniseries on television depict college as a never ending party scene. Like me, many young people entering…
Ecstasy, the recreational rave drug, has been criticized as a drug leading to death and lauded as a drug that give life to survivors of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. Recently, The LA Times published an article on Ecstasy use that has led to teen deaths in LA’s rave scene. This report was followed six days…
Just living in an area where homicides occur can cause children to have lower scores in reading, writing, and thinking. The stress, fear, and helplessness children experience when they live in areas that they experience as threatening can interfere with their cognitive abilities in significant ways. That’s according to a new study reported this week….
A recent study shows that National Guard members are more likely to suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or depression after combat than are regular members of the active military. Even one year after deployment, National Guard members suffered rates of PTSD as much as three times higher. They also showed greater increase in alcohol…
Healing a broken heart can be one of life’s most difficult challenges; however, taking specific action can reduce the length of time it takes to overcome heartache. One of the great hurdles faced after a break up are the constant and recurring negative thoughts about the relationship. Fortunately, recent research from the field of Positive Psychology…