Kristin MacDermottMarriage & Family Therapist, LMFT

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Anxiety is crippling your teenager. There are few things more devastating for a parent than watching your child suffer and not knowing how to help. You don’t want to fuel your child’s anxiety with your own, but it’s hard to stay calm and reassuring when you feel helpless and overwhelmed. Thus, anxiety escalates—for you and your teen. Teenagers today are under immense pressure to achieve, especially those from affluent families, and the pressure is taking a profound toll on their mental health. In fact, children of affluent families have significantly higher rates of anxiety, depression, psychosomatic symptoms, and substance abuse.

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