Anxiety. Depression. suicide.
Ear infection and coughs and colds are no longer the bread and butter of pediatric practices.
Our schedules are overflowing with mental health issues and often those concerns are masked as psychosomatic sxs - chronic headaches, abdominal pain, dizziness, chest pain, nauseous.
Yet under the vague intermittent lingering symptoms are hidden powerful words if brought to light and addressed.
“I mean I have a few friends at school but I feel alone most of my life. My parents aren't divorced, they are there but they don’t get me. They don’t listen to me. They don’t see me at all. It’s like I am invisible. It doesn’t matter what I do or say no one hears me. Sometimes I feel like it doesn't make a difference if I am here or not.”
