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 “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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...