The preteen and teen years are hard enough to decode without factoring in anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues that are finally being discussed as the legitimate medical problems they are. Below, I’ve gathered a list of adolescent depression books for parents. Mix this uncertainty with the thread of (diagnosed and undiagnosed) mental illness running through my family tree, and you have a recipe for disaster. I’ve been a mother for a decade, and the only constant I’ve found is change. Every child hits each stage in an infuriatingly different way. Every new stage is a bewildering fresh slate. My children are only 9 and 10, but though my 9-year-old skews a little younger, my 10-year-old is hurtling towards teendom at the speed of light. I miss that foolishly optimistic young mother. I thought no part of this endeavor could ever be harder. The sheer terror of not knowing what I was doing, the exhaustion that I knew what was coming but had no way to truly anticipate it…it was survival mode. When I first became a parent, I thought that nothing could be more difficult than the infant years.
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