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    ADHD Tools and Tips: Expert Insights from High Focus Centers PA 

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    Managing ADHD can be a challenging journey, especially with the unique demands and distractions of everyday life. At High Focus Centers, we understand the importance [...]

  • How Bullying Can Cause Co-Occurring Disorders in Adolescents

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    The teenage years are some of the most intense developmental years of the brain. This period is when the majority of mental illnesses develop, as [...]

  • Should I Consider Interventional Psychiatry?

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    In the fields of clinical mental health and psychology, treatments and techniques are constantly being evaluated and reevaluated for the sake of the patients. When [...]

  • Does My Teen Have a Mental Health Disorder?

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    If you’re the parent of a teenager, you’ve probably wondered whether your teen is displaying signs of a mental health disorder or whether the behaviors [...]

  • Helping Your Teen Overcome Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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    Mood swings and other symptoms are often dismissed as typical behavior for teenagers, so it’s easy to miss signs of underlying mental health disorders in [...]

  • Identifying Seasonal Depression in Your Child

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    Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or seasonal depression as it’s most commonly known, doesn’t only affect adults, it can also affect children and teens. As the [...]

  • Knowing the Obsessive and Compulsive Behaviors Linked to OCD

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    According to Mayo Clinic, OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) “features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions). These [...]

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    A Quick Reference Guide to the 8 Most Common Mood Disorders

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    Although everyone’s mood fluctuates from day to day, for some individuals it prevents them from living their everyday lives. This article is a quick reference [...]

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    What You Need to Know About the Ups and Downs of Bipolar Disorder

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    We all have days when life feels like a roller coaster. The highs and lows of ordinary life can feel dramatic at times, but for [...]

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    What could be triggering my anxiety attacks?

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    Everyone feels anxious at some point. A little anxiety can even be helpful, like when nervousness about a test spurs you to study. However, not [...]

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    How Mental Health Challenges Can Affect Eating Disorder Issues

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    Eating disorders are all too common. In the United States, about nine percent of people will be affected at some point in their lifetime according [...]

  • A woman puts a hand to her chest as she experiences a panic attack

    How to Stop a Panic Attack

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    The American Psychological Association conducts a study on stress in the United States every year and focuses on both the emotional and physical symptoms that [...]

  • A man suffers from persistent depressive disorder, or dysthymia

    The Difference Between Persistent Depressive and Major Depressive Disorders

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    As with many mental health conditions, we have a general concept of what they entail and what their symptoms most often look like. But, too [...]

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    How to Help Someone Who Is Suicidal

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    According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, in the year 2020, over 14 thousand people died as a result of suicide in the United [...]

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    How to Identify and Challenge Irrational Thinking

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    We've all been told by well-meaning loved ones at some point that something we did or said was unreasonable. We often make mistakes, act out [...]

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    Coping With Depression

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    We all experiences emotional highs and lows in life. Sometimes we have periods of longer lows or lows that seem more difficult, but if your [...]