Unable to reason with one of the teens, youth worker Jana suggested the parents have their daughter seen by her doctor. Mom called the next morning and said, "Doctor, please talk to and evaluate my 13-year-old girl."
He answered, "She's suffering from a transient psychosis with an intermittent rage disorder, punctuated by episodic radical mood swings, but her prognosis is good for full recovery."
Mom said, "How can you say all that without even meeting her?"
The doctor replied, "Didn't you say she was 13?"
Many physical, emotional, psychological and social changes are simultaneously occurring during adolescence. Some teens become severely depressed. Adolescence is an unsettling time and it is not always easy to come alongside a teen when heor she doesn't want you involved in his or her life.
My goal in this bog is to talk about what parents, youth leaders and mentors need to know to counteract the devastating influence that things like celebrity obsession are having on our youth.
[This material, although reworked, is an excerpt from the book Torn Between Two Masters]
Teens today live in a more dangerous, sexualized, oppressive, and media-saturated world. They face more pressures and are coerced into imitating celebrities, starving themselves, undergoing unnecessary plastic surgery procedures, hooking up, and using substances, issues addressed in this blog.
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