The school year is starting and parents hope for a successful year for their child, both academically and socially. But what do you do if your Child is the target of a Bully? There are several things you can do to both support and guide your child. First let’s take a look at what bullying is. Bullying is:
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur in people of any age. It can occur after you have seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death.
It can follow:
- A natural disaster (tornado, earthquake, tsunami, etc.)
- Assault, Domestic Violence, rape
- War
- Terrorism
- Accidents
Symptoms include:
Non-suicidal self-injury is the act of deliberately harming your own body, such as through cutting on yourself or through burning yourself. It is typically not meant as a suicide attempt. Rather, self-injury is an unhealthy way to cope with emotional pain, intense anger and frustration.
Divorce is never an easy solution for a marriage. By the time a couple gets to the point where they’ve made a decision to pursue dissolving their relationship, communication has broken down, and feelings of fondness give way to harsh criticism, defensiveness, feelings of contempt and eventually stonewalling, once these behaviors begin to play out it can be hard to see a way back to being emotionally connected and happy. However, there are ways people can rebuild their relationship and explore whether their marriage is worth saving.