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Characteristics of Mental Disorders in Adolescents that Parents Need to Know

  

 The characteristics of mental disorders in adolescents are often times abandoned because is considered a natural thing to happen during puberty.  Even though, if not handled with good, this situation could have an effect bad for  development of emotional, social life, and health physical children of adolescents.

 Mental disorders have could be found in the age teens.  It is estimated that around 49.5% of adolescents aged 13-18 years have mental disorders, and 22.2% of them suffer from severe mental illness.

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 In adolescents, problems mental health common, eating disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression.

 Mental health disorders in adolescents do not rarely trigger suicide.  Even, about 47% of suicide cases in Indonesia occur in children age teenagers and young adults.  Therefore, it is important for parents to know guidelines-guidelines of mental disorders in adolescents.

 Characteristics of Mental Disorders in Adolescents

 Detecting the characteristics of mental disorders in adolescents is not easy.  The number of new things that discovered and learned could trigger the little at age puberty to experience changes in behavior or mood.

 However, changes in such a thing cannot can again be considered normal if has interfered with daily life and not appropriate  with his age.

 In every child, the characteristics of mental disorders that arise can vary, depending on age, variety of the disease experienced,  and severity.  But, broadly speaking, children adolescents with mental disorders will show signs-guidelines the following  :

 1. Can't can regulate emotional

 Si teenagers who have mental disorders generally not able manage emotional or seem more sensitive.  He could feel a deep sadness such that deep and angry that exploded for no obvious reason.  He also often feels if he is always wrong and not valuable.

 2. Changes in behavior that are not reasonable

 You need to watch out for when the little one teenagers, Mom and Dad suddenly act unnaturally, such as rebelling, tantrums, big head, easily offended, or back like a little little.  This could just be a guide he has a mental breakdown.

 Not only that, difficulty socializing, withdrawing from the environment, and losing interest to run things that are liked and common  done, such as going to school or playing with friends, also can be a guidelines of a mental disorder suffered.

 For young children who have anxiety disorders, he could feel excessive worried when around other people, fear rejection, and choose to avoid kinship with him, increases his self-confidence, teaches him the method manages stress, and familiarizes him to use a healthy lifestyle.

 If Mother or Father attention any signs of mental disorders in your little, immediately take him  to a psychologist or psychiatrist, yes.  By receiving the ideal treatment, the little consistent can grow into adults who are more happy and healthy.

 Last updated: January 6, 2022

 Reviewed by: dr.  Airindya Bella