Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) occurs after an exceptionally traumatizing episode in a child's life. ... It is even estimated that half of America lives with depression, and a large portion cannot legally purchase a cigarette (which, by the way, have been clinically proven to increase anxiety and depression by thirty percent in a six year study of juvenile smokers). ... Along with the damaged neurotransmitters, a teen will feel overall hopelessness, irritability, and a general loss of libido in life. Not to be confused with anxiety, which is more symptomatic of panic attacks and fe...

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The inordinate spike in the teen and adolescent presence online is both staggering and continuing as we introduce more and more social media sites into daily lives. ... This infinite social circle has a litany of possible negative effects on adolescent social lives, but all of those can significantly affect how a teen defines "friendship". ... The "tethered self" is one who is so dependent on others' lives that they receive their values and form their own identity based on others, a characteristic that we saw was indicative in the socially forming years of 12-14. FoMO ...

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If not resolved successfully, this may result in confusion about one's role and place in the present and future life experiences (White, Hayes, Livesey, 2013). ... Marcia believed that internal and emotional conflicts (crises) of adolescents would stimulate the exploration of new possibilities in their difficult lives. ...

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" to prompt her readers, of which surely many are parents, to really consider whether the luxuries bought for our generation's little darlings may actually have the positive impact we intended them to have on our children's lives: emotionally and mentally. ... Unfortunately, the unpleasant idea of a "troubled generation " persists into the later years of the typical adolescent's life, according to Rumbelow. ...

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