What Are Some Signs That My Child Needs to See a Therapist?

What are some signs that your child needs to see a therapist? You know, I, I guess there's a, a wide range here, right? If I was looking at anxiety or if I was looking at depression, or if I was looking at something more complicated as suicidal ideation, suicidal thoughts, uh, again, I, I think that those are things that we would wanna understand. So, is my child manifesting symptoms of depression? Well, what are symptoms of depression? They're sad. More often than not, they don't have motivation. They have low energy, right? My child is, uh, often just maybe melancholy. Okay? So my, I'm looking for symptoms. If you're concerned about your child being depressed, then you might wanna look up symptoms of depression. Okay, my child's experiencing or manifesting these, uh, that would be a good time to talk with the therapist. My child's feeling anxious. Well, what does anxiety look like? My heart's racing. I have a lot of fears. I have a lot of worries. Nobody likes me. You start to hear a conversation around anxiousness that is, is not going away. And it's, it's, again, these are things that you wanna look at, not just, uh, maybe in the moment, but you wanna see that they're happening maybe two weeks or three weeks and you see this is not, uh, uh, going away. It's not, um, it's just continually with my child. Those are pretty good symptoms that I want, I want to be aware of, uh, as, as I'm interacting with my child. And then maybe the more, uh, difficult one that I brought up, the suicidal ideation when they talk about, uh, statements. I don't wanna live. I wish I was dead. I wish I'd never been born. Uh, those are more along the suicidal elements. And then that's where we would certainly say, I wanna make sure that I'm paying very close attention to that. And I would strongly encourage getting into therapy in that situation. There's a lot of other ones that we haven't talked about, the social anxieties and social fears. But again, the general ones that we typically see are anxiety, depression, and, and then in some situations where there's substance use or misuse and, uh, hidden behaviors associated with that would probably be a good time to invite, uh, others to help and support your, support you and your parenting.