Young People

Some signs of difficulties in older primary age school children and adolescents

• Unhappiness, depression and being irritable, poor appetite, sleeping difficulties and thinking about death.
• Becoming a loner
• Marked changes in school performance
• Abuse of alcohol and/or drugs
• Changes in sleeping and/or eating habits
• Avoiding school, stealing, vandalism
• Great fear of becoming obsess when there are no physical signs of being overweight
• Exercising much more than is reasonable, especially if goes on exercising when injured
• Constant worrying
• Hearing or seeing things that are not there
• Frequent outbursts of anger

Sites
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• BRAVE - www.psych.mq.edu.au/brave/index.html

A treatment program and information for adolescents between 13 and 17 years of age who are suffering anxiety.

• Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Center - www.eppic.org.au

Learn about different types of psychosis-spectrum disorders, phases of assessment, treatment and recovery.

• Headroom - www.headroom.net.au

Site has great information and links to wide range of sites specific to youth’m mental health, general health, sexual health and drugs and alchol as well as other ‘arty’ stuff.