How to tell when a child or teen is hurting when they can't express their feelings easily, writes DrJeff4Help
Tommy stared blankly on while his mother, feeling desperate in her own right, shared her litany of concerns about Tommy:"Tommy often seems to have a gloom and doom attitude.""He stays up at night on screens and always seems ways to get to them.""He just does not seem to care about school or anything except his phone and video games."I gently encouraged Tommy's mom to leave while hearing her temporarily parting words, loud and clear."Dr.
After what admittedly felt like a satisfying clunk of my office door when his mother left, Tommy sat there in silence. He seemed to be studying me for a bit, and I was not sure where things would go in terms of him engaging with me or not. I was about to reach for one of myTommy looked at me and said,"I choose to feel sad, so I can feel something."
I told him,"In this crazy world where we are still encouraged to act as we all have it so together, it really takes guts to admit when we are hurting. I really appreciate you trusting me to say this."
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