Here’s a statistic that should make every parent’s heart skip a beat: 42% of high schoolers are wrestling with persistent sadness, according to the CDC’s 2024 findings. That’s nearly half of all teens walking through school hallways carrying invisible weight on their shoulders.
You know the one, prescribe medication, schedule weekly therapy, and hope symptoms fade. But mental health doesn’t work like that, does it? It bleeds into everything. Your teen’s friendships start crumbling. Grades nosedive. They stop caring about things they once loved. Their physical health takes hits you might not even connect to their emotional struggles.
That’s exactly why holistic mental health treatment is gaining serious traction among families who’ve watched traditional approaches fall short. We’re talking about programs that look at your kid as a complete human being, mind, body, and spirit all tangled together in ways that matter deeply for recovery.
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