It’s no secret that gay teens often receive a disproportionate amount of abuse and discrimination, sometimes in the form of bullying, harassment and even violence. The stress and trauma that many LGBT teens face can have devastating effects on their mental and physical health, sometimes leading to behavioral health disorders that can linger long after […]

Teens love social media. Over 60 percent of teens aged 13 to 17 have at least one profile on a social media site, according to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). And as annoying as it may be to have an adolescent’s face buried in a tablet or a phone – or […]

Dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly referred to a multiple personality disorder, is a rare and controversial disorder that is characterized by identity fragmentation rather than the growth of two different personalities. The name of this disorder was changed in 1994 to address its accurate definition and is recognized by the DSM-5 as a mental health […]

According to a study published this February in the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, researchers have found that survivors of sexual abuse may be able to benefit from the anonymity of online forums. The study The study was led by Nazanin Andalibi, a doctoral […]