By Russell Foster. That was a typical reaction to work I was reporting at the time on teenage sleep patterns and their effect on performance at school. Six years on there is growing acceptance that the structure of the academic day needs to take account of adolescent sleep patterns.
These are external links and will open in a new window. Navigating life as a teenager can be hard, and when you need support, asking for it can be the biggest challenge. It allows users to post questions anonymously and get answers from their peers and from undergraduate psychology students - expert advice, but from people not long out of school themselves.
Who am I exactly? Identity is something teenagers struggle with. Our identity is reflected in, well, everything.
Back to Sleep and tiredness. It may feel like your teenager is sleeping their life away. Our sleep patterns are dictated by light and hormones. When light dims in the evening, we produce a chemical called melatonin, which tells us it's time to sleep.
Teen depression is much more than feeling temporarily sad or down in the dumps. But depression is far more common in teens than you may think. The increased academic pressures, social challenges, and hormonal changes of the teenage years mean that about one in five of us suffer with depression in our teens.
The first time Faith-Ann Bishop cut herself, she was in eighth grade. It was 2 in the morning, and as her parents slept, she sat on the edge of the tub at her home outside Bangor, Maine, with a metal clip from a pen in her hand. Then she sliced into the soft skin near her ribs.
You've lived through 2 a. So why is the word "teenager" causing you so much worry? When you consider that the teen years are a period of intense growth, not only physically but emotionally and intellectually, it's understandable that it's a time of confusion and upheaval for many families.
I am a teen expert. But mostly, because I say so. When you have teens, the soundtrack of your life is snorts, the backdrop, eye-rolls.
If you have a teenager or remember your high school sleep habits you know that staying up late, struggling to rise with the alarm clock, and dozing until noon on the weekends come with the territory. One of the reasons adolescents become night owls is the lifestyle of this age group—which brings heavy loads of homework and busy social lives—but another reason is a natural, biological shift that occurs in the teenage years. Scientists have known for a long time now that a person's biological clock shifts forward in adolescence.
Most of the time, those rapid and intense mood shifts are a normal part of adolescence. But sometimes, mood swings can signal a more serious problem. Mood swings during adolescence are partially due to biology. Hormonal shifts that occur during puberty play a major role in the way teens think and feel.