You can never look at your teen and ask: “What about him (or her)? If you had your own problems in adolescence, you can silently reject negative behavior of your child as a transitional stage in the hope that things are improving and it will rapidly and safely through the storm will pass.

Or conversely, you can worry about whether things could get worse.

In both cases you have some signs that your teen should be out by a specialist mental health as quickly as possible to view known, and five of these signs are listed below.

If your child is thinking or talking about suicide, we must act quickly. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) has created a special press release issued in 2007 to the alarming increase in suicides in the age group of one to nineteen: a rise of 18.2 percent in 2003 2004th Suicide is the third leading cause of death in the United States of fifteen to twenty years and the fourth leading cause of death in ten to fourteen. If your child or young person who tells you he or she wish to die or thoughts of suicide, take it seriously. Do not you think it is “just a joke” or arouse a way to get attention. You can not take that risk.

Experimenting with drugs and alcohol among adolescents is not uncommon, and there are many reasons for what they do. The average age at which men first try alcohol is 11 years and for girls it is 13 years. There is no way of knowing in advance who you go to a drug or alcohol problem, develop serious, but the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said that young people who begin drinking before the age of 15 years are four times often become dependent on alcohol than those who begin drinking at age 21 to develop. If your daughter shows signs of unusual fatigue, red eyes or glossy, personality changes, poor grades or decision to be trouble with the law, you need to solve the problem.

Expressions of worthlessness and guilt from your child may be a sign that said there was nothing to live. You say it does not feel “good enough”, or in a situation that he can not leave will be caught, or he feels devastated and alone in the world the way may be that your teen to tell you, he wants and needs help.

Some children innocent of evil insects and other small animals if they are very young, but most are run by their parents and teachers to be kind to animals pulling (not the cat’s tail) to develop and quick to empathy and can feel the concern for all the pain of an animal. Unfortunately, some have continued to mistreat animals in May and extending this cruelty to humans. The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and Northeastern University tell us that those who abuse animals are five times more likely to violence against people and four times more likely to commit crimes against property than those without a history of cruelty to animals. The American Psychiatric Association considers animal cruelty one of the diagnostic criteria for a disorder.

Bipolar disorder, which used to as manic-depressive, speculation in the news lately, the media that certain individuals suffer from this disease. People with bipolar disorder suffer from high and low extremes of a cyclical nature. You may have heard that bipolar disorder affects mainly adults, but these days, many children and adolescents diagnosed with this disorder. If one or both parents have bipolar disorder, the chances are greater that their children can develop to be able, family and history of drug or alcohol to be associated with bipolar disorder in adolescents. Manic (up) symptoms are either young or stupid or exceptionally happy very irritable, angry, agitated or aggressive, unrealistic feelings about the building, or he or she has special powers, with an exceptional level of energy and ability, with little or to operate no sleep, and participation in risky behaviors such as abuse of alcohol and drug abuse, reckless driving, or sexual promiscuity.

Depressed (low) are symptoms of frequent crying, sadness that will not disappear, irritability, not in a position to enjoy preferred activities, and major changes in diet and sleep habits, like eating or sleeping too much with excess.

There is evidence that prior to the hat, but if you fear that your child may have emotional or behavioral problem, please seek the advice of a psychologist immediately.