Life Challenges!

What challenges are you facing?

Daily struggles can become seemingly insurmountable. Anxiety or depression may lead your thought process. Gathering the family for a normal meal can develop into a shouting match. Facing continual doubts about your marriage can make you want to give up. At any age, we sometimes need a little guidance from an objective person – what is your story?

Bullying, Social Media, No One Understands Me

Tweens and adolescents experience a wide array of challenges that their parents likely did not. How do they talk with their parents when they generally have the feeling, ‘No one understands me’? And it might very well be true!

As parents, it may be difficult to understand what their tween is experiencing with social bullying when they were not exposed to this phenomenon.

Adolescents are torn apart emotionally if they feel they have no control over any part of their life. They may think they don’t ‘fit’ the ideal child their parents expect – and who can they talk to about this?

The Story Is on Her Face

‘Crystal’ went to work today.

Everyone in Crystal’s department knew ‘it’ had happened again.

Why does Crystal stay with that abuser?

How does anyone deal with domestic violence?

Does she not realize that she’s in a toxic relationship?

Taking a step away from what has become a norm in Crystal’s life is next to impossible.

And what about the man/woman who is a domestic violence offender?

‘Dave’ doesn’t want to go home.

Dave’s day was full of stress – from beginning to end.

Dave wants peace – not a partner who is going to start asking questions as soon as he walks in the door.

And then ‘it’ happened. Crystal asked a question not knowing Dave had a bad day.

BOOM!

Dave snaps – he begins to yell, he pushes Crystal and out of anger he punches a hole in the wall. Crystal tries to get away. Dave takes her keys, her phone and blocks her from leaving out the door.

Fear is all over Crystal’s face.

I don’t want to…

I don’t want to go to work.

I don’t want to clean house.

I don’t want to get up.

When thoughts like these become daily experiences instead of the occasional blip on our horizon, they may be the result of depression or anxiety. Daily activities may become so burdensome that there seems to be no way out – no way to find the person that was left behind years ago.

How to make it stop

It’s time to reach out for a better way – look for a brighter side – at Brighter Side Counseling. All these issues are treatable… each tween, adolescent, and adult can evaluate their life with guidance and find a better path for themselves.