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#8: Mental illness and substance abuse in children and teenagers

Substance abuse and mental health problems often seem to go together. Which begs the question, which comes first, the chicken (mental illness) or the egg (substance use)? What we have seen, is that some mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder may contribute to substance use and addiction. Similarly,

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A New Dawn Podcast with Dawn and Tracey

Season 1: Episode 53 – Tracey Maxfield Discusses her battle with depression, how she fell into “The Rabbit Hole,” and her platform and advocacy.   September 22, 2019 Tracey Maxfield is doing all the things I dream about, she wrote a book about coming out of the Rabbit Hole of

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Mental Health
Tracey Maxfield

Histrionic Personality Disorder in Children and Teenagers

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjM6q7gi39g[/embedyt] The American Psychiatric Association (APA) defines Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD) as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive attention seeking emotions, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriate seductive behaviour. Many teenagers experience emotional outbursts, overreact to things, seek attention, dress inappropriately, and engage in

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Rare and Unusual Dementias

Dementia Aware: what you need to know about other types of dementia   Dementia is a common and growing problem worldwide. Whilst ninety-five per cent of cases are attributable to Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia etc., little is known about the remaining five per cent of dementia cases.

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