"Demons Inside: Teens at Risk Can Hide Mental Illness" by Joan Raymond is an important read on the challenges of making mental health diagnoses and providing support to adolescents.
"For teens part of the problem is that "adolescents fundamentally want to fit in, and anything that marks them as different is a problem" says child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Niranjan Karnik of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Added to that issue is that adolescents may not even know what "feeling bad" really means since the have less life experience, and shorter reference points to compare the so-called good days versus bad days."
"For teens part of the problem is that "adolescents fundamentally want to fit in, and anything that marks them as different is a problem" says child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Niranjan Karnik of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Added to that issue is that adolescents may not even know what "feeling bad" really means since the have less life experience, and shorter reference points to compare the so-called good days versus bad days."
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