When Something Feels “Off,” but Doesn’t Yet Have a Name Parents and caregivers often describe a period before a psychotic episode where something just feels wrong. Their child ...
When Highs and Lows Become Something More It’s hard enough to watch a teen or young adult struggle with mood swings that swing from soaring highs to crushing lows. But for some ...
When the Symptoms Don’t Fit Neatly in a Box For families, few things are more unsettling than watching a teen or young adult change in ways that are hard to explain. They may seem ...
When Emotions and Reality Collide For families, one of the most confusing experiences is when a loved one seems to swing between two worlds, one shaped by changes in mood, the ...
When Life Suddenly Feels Unfamiliar Every parent has a moment when they look at their child and think: “Something feels different.”
When “Just Experimenting” Becomes Something More If you’re a parent or caregiver, you’ve probably heard the line: “It’s just weed, everyone does it.” Maybe you even believed it at ...
Imagine a teen who suddenly stops going to class, avoids friends, and says things that don’t quite make sense. For parents, it’s confusing. For the teen, it’s overwhelming.
Talking to a teen about mental health can feel like walking a tightrope. You want to ask questions without pushing too hard. You want to help without making them shut down.
Parenting teenagers often comes with sudden changes, mood swings, new friends, and a shift in grades. But sometimes, those changes go beyond what’s “typical.” For some teens, ...
You’ve probably heard the word before, but maybe only in passing - in a movie, on the news, or used as a punchline or a warning. “Psychosis” tends to conjure images that are ...
Summer is often imagined as a time when things get lighter. School steps aside, routines loosen, and the usual pressures fade into the background. For many teens, that shift can ...
If you’re reading this, maybe something about your teen has shifted. Perhaps they’ve pulled away from friends, stopped showing up to school, or started saying things that don’t ...
As seen in Yahoo! Finance LOS ANGELES -- California OnTrack, a trusted leader in Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI) for teens and young adults, is now part of Pand Health—a ...
A classroom-style treatment teaches patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other illnesses to carry on their lives despite hallucinations and imagined voices.
Our conception of the human “mind” is a manifestation of brain function. In turn, the brain is composed of numerous autonomous, but highly coordinated functional units. If one ...
Exploring the intricate connections between family dynamics and the emergence of psychosis and schizophrenia in teenagers and young adults.
Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. The onset of schizophrenia is typically in the late teenage years or early adulthood. ...
The interplay between genetics (e.g. family history of mental illness) and environment (e.g. infections or drug use) leads some people to develop impaired brain function during ...
Bipolar Disorder, once called manic depression, is characterized by unusual and out of character shifts in mood, energy and activity levels, concentration, and the ability to ...
Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that dramatically disrupts one’s ability to think clearly, participate in daily life, and trust one’s own sense of reality, all of which ...
Psychosis affects about 3 in every 100 adults, with typical onset in late adolescence or early adulthood (16– 22 years old). Early psychosis, also known as first-episode psychosis ...
