Life Happens:a Teenager's Guide To Friends, Sexuality, Love, Rejection, addiction, Peer Press Ure, Families, Loss, Depression, Change & Other Challenges Of Living
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Do you:
• Often feel afraid to let anyone know how bad you feel and why you feel that way? • Hide your feelings—pretending to be happy and that life is going along as it always did? • Deny your feelings or cover them up with angry or impulsive behavior—lashing out at parents, family, friends, or teachers? • Try to numb your feelings with alcohol, drugs, sex, or eating disorders—not always realizing what you're doing and why?
If you can't seem to get in touch with your emotions—and you feel that there's no one you can turn to—then you need Life Happens. Written by specialists in adolescent psychology and medicine, this reassuring guide offers information to help you understand that the way you're feeling is totally normal, even when it seems that you're depressed for no reason at all. Using the voices and letters of teens seeking help, the authors discuss some of today's most difficult situations—from the pressure to get good grades to questions concerning sexuality to dealing with your parents. You'll learn the steps you can take to help yourself, as well as how and where to get professional help, if you want it.
About the Author
Kathleen McCoy, PhD is a psychotherapist and the award-winning author of a dozen books including ALA's Best Books for Young Adults winner The Teenage Body Book (Random House, 2008) and Understanding Your Teenager's Depression (Perigee, 2005). Dr. McCoy was the columnist for Seventeen's "Sex and Your Body" and she is a former editor of Teen. Dr. McCoy has also written for national publications such as Readers Digest, The New York Times, Family Circle, Mademoiselle, TV Guide and The Journal of Clinical Child Psychology. Dr. McCoy and her husband recently moved from Los Angeles to Florence, Arizona, a small historic town where they live with their four cats Gus, Maggie, SweetPea and Hamish.
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