Knowing someone you care for struggles with their mental health is hard to deal with. You want to help them, but you don't know how. It seems as if no words are appropriate to say to them and nothing you can do would actually help them.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder(ADHD) is most commonly associated with children or adolescents. With ADHD, there is a common misconception that once a child grows up, their symptoms will just automatically go away.

Those who are in their teenage years now, however, have had to deal with something entirely new that no previous generation has - a worldwide pandemic.

We can think of anxiety, in general, as a range. Some people have crippling anxiety that affects them in their everyday life. Other people don't deal with chronic anxiety at all. In the middle of this range is people who are considered to have high-functioning anxiety. 

It hurts so much to watch your neurodivergent teen struggle to find and form friendships! But there are specific skills teens can learn to help them build better connections and have more fun.

The common depiction of ADHD is a school-aged child who can’t sit in their chair. However, ADHD affects people of all ages and can look different from person to person.

Have you heard the terms neurodiversity and neurodivergent recently but are not entirely clear on what they mean?

We often focus on the end result of what we want, to get a good grade in a class for example, and forget to start with the basics.

Each year provides both anxieties and excitement for neurodivergent students and their parents