by Monica Campbell | Mar 19, 2020 | anxiety, behavior, communication, crisis
I’d been feeling pretty calm in the face of coronavirus until Sunday, when wave after wave of new information came crashing towards me; my kid’s school closing, all non-essential businesses closing, my parents being told to shelter in...
by Monica Campbell | Jan 29, 2020 | anxiety
“I’m feeling calm when I talk about it, but when it happened, I couldn’t go back to class. I had to call my mom and beg her to pick me up”. Many, many times have I heard this, the teen with me in session looking at me baffled and ashamed....
by Monica Campbell | Jan 22, 2020 | Parenting, Teens, therapist
Last month I wrote a blog titled 5 Tips for Picking a Therapist for Your Teen. It published 7 days ago, and three days after that, I got a text from a dear friend that went something like this: “…Why is it so ^%$##!!!! hard to find a therapist for my...
by Monica Campbell | Jan 15, 2020 | crisis, depression, suicide, Teens
It was reported recently that every day, 16 young people die from suicide. I’m turning, again, to writing about suicide, and wishing desperately that I had better news. I want to write about suicide rates going down, or that a new abundant source of money has...
