Coping Skills for Teens With Social Anxiety: A Guide for Parents
Many people with social anxiety start to notice it interfering with their life in notable ways during their teen years, as it has an adolescent onset age. This is also when they start learning a lot about themselves as individuals and identifying the goals they want...
10 Signals That Your Loved One May Be Severely Depressed
Recognizing when a loved one is depressed can be very tricky. What’s severe to one person will look different to another — for instance, someone with major depressive disorder (MDD) and ADHD could have trouble concentrating or remembering things on a daily basis. To...
Lightfully’s Teen IOP: What to Expect
Maintaining mental wellness is a huge part of teens staying physically healthy — and yet, mental health treatment has been clouded by stigma, misinformation, misunderstandings, and negative portrayals in movies and TV. Many people don’t know that there are levels of...
Do Symptoms of Paranoid Schizophrenia Present Differently in Females?
Schizophrenia is a serious mental condition that seems to affect men and women equally. Paranoid schizophrenia used to be known as the most common subtype of schizophrenia, but the term is no longer used as a classification. Experts no longer refer to subtypes of...
Is Major Depressive Disorder Considered a Disability?
To fully answer this question, we must recognize that the concept of “disability” carries different meanings and connotations in different social contexts. Some have seen disability as a disqualifier or “less-than.” However, many people with disabilities claim it...
5 Common Medications for College Students With Clinical Depression
There’s nothing unusual about feeling sad leading up to your first weeks away at college. Your first semester, finals week, winter break and the start of class each fall are all times when you might notice strong emotions. Academic pressure, missing your friends and...
When Is It Time for a Teen With Depression to Begin Treatment?
If your teen has been showing behavior changes recently, like sleeping in more or staying home and withdrawing socially, it’s normal for you to be concerned. Today’s generation of teens is grappling with more complexity and uncertainty than ever before. Between the...
What Is Relationship Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (ROCD)?
Relationship obsessive-compulsive disorder (ROCD) is not recognized as a diagnosable mental health disorder but is increasingly used to refer to a specific manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is characterized by two main components: obsessions...
Bipolar Schizophrenia: 6 of the Most Common Symptoms
There are different schools of thought on symptoms and diagnoses related to schizophrenia in the field of psychiatry. What’s known as bipolar schizophrenia, or schizoaffective disorder: bipolar type, is associated with symptoms of both bipolar disorder and...