Parent Alert: College mental health crisis and signs your teen may be depressed or at risk of dropping out Your son or daughter is back from college for the holidays! He or she spent months studying for those SATs, filling out college applications and agonizing.  Then acceptance! You move your teen into the dorm, hug [...]

Red flags that a child may be cyber bullied or harassed electronically Over the last few months we’ve read about horrific tragedies – bullycides — that appear prompted by relentless peer bullying. One child tragically ending their young life due to vicious peer cruelty is one child is too many. So let’s get savvy about electronic [...]

The mothers of two 14-year-old girls who killed themselves in a suicide pact spoke to TODAY’s Matt Lauer about their heartbreak today, saying their daughters had been victims of cyberbullying and suffered from depression — but they never expected anything this horrible. “I tried to teach her to see past tomorrow,” said Tricia Behnke, mother of [...]

Chilling details continue to emerge three months after South Hadley High school freshman, Phoebe Prince, took her life. Descriptions of relentless vicious taunts, endless physical threats and horrifying bullying she endured at the hands of her peers leave us shaken. Now news sources have obtained two essays Phoebe Prince wrote for her high school English [...]

Always moody. Easily agitated. Sleeps in. Says, “Nobody cares.” Sounds like a typical teen, right?  Well not always. Did you know that depression now strikes one out of 20 teens?  What’s more, the rates of childhood depression are not only increasing but are also impacting younger kids. A kid today is ten times more likely [...]