How To Help A Teen Or Young Adult With Anxiety

Anxiety is very common among teens and young adults, and parents often pick up on signs of anxiety in their children. But how can you get your teen to open up to you and share how they're feeling? In this video, hear from Marc Azoulay, LPC, LAC, CGP, ACS as he talks through signs of anxiety causes of anxiety, and the best way to help your child (or you) deal with anxiety. Check out our complete guide to helping teens and young adults with anxiety👇 https://www.sandstonecare.com/blog/yo... For substance use or mental health support for teens and young adults call (855) 958-5511 or live chat with us at https://www.sandstonecare.com/ CLICK HERE to hear the full podcast episode with Marc 👉 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1800130/88... Marc is a psychotherapist in private practice in Boulder, CO and the past President of the Four Corners Group Psychotherapy Society. He helps clients that have a harmful relationship to their inherent aggression or who are stuck in the pain of their repetition compulsions. Many of his clients struggle with addiction, anxiety, and self-sabotage. Marc helps people uncover and destroy the unconscious barriers that cripple them by using a blend of Modern Psychoanalytic and Contemplative Psychotherapy. His therapeutic style can best be described as irreverent with surprising moments of profound depth. For substance use or mental health support for teens and young adults call (678) 958-5511 or live chat with us at https://www.sandstonecare.com/ #addictionhelp #Mentalhealthpodcast #Sobertribe Well, if you have a teenager, you just struggle with, right, which is mainly around social situations, especially when you're in that middle school, high school, you know, entering into college. It's, you know, do I fit in? Do people like me? Am I normal? Or am I weird? You know, like, Am I a good person or a bad person? All these big societal pressures really come crashing down on individuals when they reach that age. So I'm guessing we're gonna get some real honest answers to questions that people are people are having around depression and anxiety, am I right? That's what I hope for Yeah, we'll focus on the profound depth for this interview. Today's topic is mostly around depression and anxiety. So just to get like a scope of this whole field, what percentage of teens or young adults have anxiety? God, I would say, almost 100%. Like, I think the generations are getting progressively more anxious. As you know, society gets more complicated as social pressure gets more complicated as things like you know, the spread technology, social media, etc, etc, get more ubiquitous. I've seen, the younger, the kids tend to have more anxiety, which can manifest as, you know, shutting down as you know, being very nervous as twitching as saying things that don't mean, as you know, being afraid of situations, I don't think I've met a teenager that doesn't have anxiety in some way. And so what are like the things that you feel like, these teenagers or young adults might have anxiety around as it is, like a commonality between the things? Or is there some unique situation that's unique to our time, in which they have anxiety? Mostly? I think, well, if you have a teenager, you struggle with, right, which is mainly around social situations, especially when you're in that middle school, high school, you know, entering into college, it's, you know, do I fit in? Do people like me? Am I normal? Or am I weird, you know, like, Am I a good person or a bad person, all these big societal pressures really come crashing down on individuals, when they reach that age? Unfortunately, I do think that really gets ramped up with the technologies that we're seeing in the younger generations. Because now not only is that little, you know, young adult, comparing themselves with their local community, they're comparing themselves with the global community. So they're looking at something like how their body image compared to Instagram models, right? They're looking at how their family's wealth or success compares to people that are shooting videos on boats, right? Or they are, you know, comparing how smart they are to these little success stories of kids school, their age, like starting companies, right, or changing the world. I think the comparison thing is, is intensified by the current era that we're living in by far. Yeah, you know, I didn't think about comparison, but that's true. Like, you know, do we feel as a teen or young adult that we should be farther along than we actually are right like that somehow, we're actually missing out on the best that life has to offer.