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Children, Teens & Young Adults Mental Health
Tracey Maxfield

Suicide: What you need to know to help your children and teenagers

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvAOJVmk3WE[/embedyt] September 8 to September 14, 2019 is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Tuesday September 10 is recognised as World Suicide Prevention Day Every 40 seconds a person dies by suicide. This means that in the next hour, 90 people will have died by suicide, at the end of today,

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September 9, 2019 28 Comments
Mental Health
Tracey Maxfield

Is CBD a Safe Treatment Option for Mental Illness in Children and Teenagers?

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-RkX-_6-Dc[/embedyt] There has been a lot of talk lately about the wonderful effects of CBD (cannabidiol) in the treatment of pain management, migraines, and mental illness in children, teenagers and adults. Social media sites, especially Facebook and Instagram are full of posts from parents touting the miraculous effectiveness of

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February 16, 2020 30 Comments
Mental Health
Tracey Maxfield

Hoarding in Children and Teenagers

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyJye3RhDM4[/embedyt] Many of us have seen the television shows depicting homes filled from floor to ceiling with newspapers, garbage, and ‘things’. The images of rotten food, dead vermin, and insect infestations fill many of us with shock, horror, confusion, and sadness. How did this happen? Why won’t the person

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January 20, 2020 34 Comments
Mental Health
Tracey Maxfield

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) in Children and Teenagers

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ5BEubs1X0[/embedyt] Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or winter depression as it is also known, is a form of depression that follows a season pattern and appears and disappears at the same time each year. SAD appears when winter approaches and daylight hours become shorter and when spring returns and days

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January 6, 2020 33 Comments
Mental Health
Tracey Maxfield

Mental Illness and the Holidays

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7XVXkapKbM[/embedyt] For those living with a mental disorder, the Holiday season can be very difficult and overwhelming. Celebration, socialization, eating, drinking, partying, cheerfulness, exchanging gifts and ‘making merry’ throughout the month of December, has become a tradition and also an expectation. Sadly, the holiday season is also a major

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December 9, 2019 25 Comments