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 Ann Curry /
Dateline NBC : “What do you want to say to people listening right now,
young people, who are drinking too much, doing heroin, cutting
themselves? What do you say to them about what is possible in life?”Angelina Jolie : "I don't have the answer for what anyone should be focusing on, but I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world. Find a way to be useful and have a fight. And you fight for things to be better. Fight hard and there are some amazing fights to be had out there and that is what I didn't understand at 14. |
 I wanted to fight
and, instead, I fought myself and nearly killed myself a lot of times.
Until
I realized that I should value life and be so f****** grateful that I
have food to give my son, and a roof over my head and a chance to have
a long life." |
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 mental health on campusThe college campus can be a stressful place. Surveys show that the number of college students with mental health problems of all types is steadily increasing. ... "Since each student has roughly a 50-50 chance of having some symptoms of depression or other problems, I think it has to be part of the consideration in choosing a college," said Dr. Kadison, who is also the author of "College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It." ... |
A good strategy, experts say, is to
find out how large
a staff of mental health professionals the campus health center
retains, what kind of services are offered...
Nearly half of all students at some point find themselves feeling so depressed they have trouble functioning, and 15 percent meet the criteria for clinical depression, according to a 2004 survey by the American College Health Association. ... Most college mental health counselors, surveys show, also have noticed a sharp rise in the number of students with severe crises, like major depression, bipolar disorder and eating disorders and drug and alcohol problems severe enough to require hospitalization. > from article The Dorms May Be Great, but How's
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Asked what kinds of obstacles face today's teenagers, Jena Malone pauses.
"I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills. I feel like a lot of the drama we deal with in high school, in those environments, is self-created.
We're dealing with drama and how it affects people. How it brings people together and pulls them apart. For me, looking back, the hardest times in my high school was all bullshit.
I was completely traumatized by that. It was nothing. I could have easily thought about it from a different perspective and it would have been a perfectly healthy situation. I think we have more of a limited perspective when we're young. We're not given the opportunity to search out different types of experiences.
If all we're seeing is this high school environment, then it's detrimental to our mental health. It has nothing to do with reality, I think.
[darkhorizons.com interview May 28, 2004]
photo: Jena Malone as American Eagle Christian High School student Mary in United Artists' film "Saved."
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You know what people say about teenagers -- everything in their lives is so important, every little thing matters. I never was like that. It was always about finding out about myself.. about who I am, and how to be happy and peaceful and find balance. Kristin Kreuk ... [zap2it.com interview]
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Joan : Adam will believe me. God : Yes... but you don't know Adam that well yet.. how many burdens he's already carrying.
Joan : Adam has burdens?
God : Sometimes they look a lot like gifts."Joan of Arcadia"
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 .. .. This story "resonated like mad," says Heche, a survivor of childhood abuse. ... "I felt that was important at a time when we need so badly to allow children to tell their own stories so we can help solve this problem of abuse. Until people acknowledge that problem, it can't be solved." In her 2001 bestselling memoir, "Call Me Crazy," Heche candidly and hair-raisingly chronicles the childhood sexual abuse she endured at the hands of her father, a closeted bisexual who died of AIDS in 1983. |
"Some
people said it was very hard to read my book," Heche acknowledges. "I
know
this is very difficult subject matter. I know that. If you don't know
about
it, it's hard perhaps to explain why you should.
"Abusive parents look just like you or me, and it bothers us to think that people we have so many superficial things in common with are capable of deeply hurting a child." .... "When you look at it from the outside, the journey I've made is a rocky one, but now I have my health and my love and my family," she says. "My story is by no means the worst I have heard. Not all children are abused sexually, but the scars are no less real. In this movie, Rowena doesn't smack her kids around, she just disappears for two days at a time and leaves them to fend for themselves. "If you see something like that happening, it's vital to get involved. Go online, find out more from a place like From Darkness to Light, this organization I work with, about how you can step in and help to end the abuse." from
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 .. .. In the 1970s, while he was a student at Harvard University, Oaks was diagnosed as schizophrenic. He was institutionalized and forcibly medicated. He recovered, he says, by rejecting drugs and getting support from family and friends. "I was put on Haldol and Thorazine, and it was torture," he [says]. "They took a wrecking ball to the cathedral of my mind." |
Oaks,
now 48, is executive director of MindFreedom Support Coalition
International,
a Eugene, Ore.-based umbrella group for the "Mad Pride"
movement...
Also known as "MindFreedom," it includes so-called psychiatric survivors and dissident psychiatrists who reject the biomedical model that defines contemporary psychiatry. They say that mental illness is caused by severe emotional distress, often combined with lack of socialization, and they decry the pervasive treatment with prescription drugs, sales of which have nearly doubled since 1998. .... from article : Losing the Mind - David Oaks and Others in the 'Mad Pride' Movement Believe Drugs Are Being Overused in Treating Mental Illness, and They Want the Abuse to Stop. By David Davis, LA Times, Oct 26, 2003 photo of David Oaks from MindFreedom related book [mentioned in article] : Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker |
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Face the Issue - site
abuse; alcoholism; depression; drug abuse; self-esteem; anorexia; bulimiaSome of Hollywood's leading ladies will star in a new public service campaign to raise awareness of emotional and health issues faced by young people.
Among others, the "Face the Issue" campaign features Halle Berry narrating a vignette about abuse, Nicole Kidman lending her voice to an alcoholism PSA, Sarah Jessica Parker discussing drug abuse and Jennifer Lopez addressing self-esteem issues. The campaign will be seen through the end of the year on Fox, MTV, The WB, Yahoo!, AOL and MSN.
[Reuters/Hollywood Reporter Oct 30 2003] [image copied from campaign site]
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| Catherine
Hardwicke and Nikki Reed [photo], then 13, co-wrote the movie
"Thirteen,"
directed by Hardwicke, starring Reed, Evan Rachel Wood and Holly Hunter.
It is a harrowing drama about a young L.A. girl who grows up too fast and finds her life spiraling out of control, fueled by a volatile combination of rebellion, anger and a fascination with sex, material goods, self-mutilation and drugs. Hardwicke took Reed to museums and got her interested in photography. But when she returned from a movie shoot a couple of years ago, she noticed that the onetime honors student was sullen, argumentative and uninterested in school. "I was lost," Reed says. "I was really unhappy with who I was. There were lots of times when I'd wake up and just want to die. I guess it's part of being a teenager that you always want to be somebody else. "I started hanging out with these bad girls because at least I felt I belonged, even if it really wasn't the right place." Eager for Nikki to have a creative outlet, Hardwicke got her interested in acting, which led to the idea of writing a script together. |
 .. Reed found a new group of friends, started getting A's in school again and somehow turned a corner. "Who knows what changed?" she says. "Maybe you can only be depressed so long. I just woke up and it was a new day." ... Reed's mom.. says she embraced the idea of Nikki chronicling the unhappiest chapter of her life. ... "She's been great," says Reed. "She didn't ask me to take anything out. And that's what makes this movie what it is -- the stuff we didn't take out." from "The Big Picture" by Patrick Goldstein, LA Times, Aug 13, 2002 more about "Thirteen" on filmmaking: teen/young adult |
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Peer pressure, Malone notes, "is very hard because you have five kids around you doing it, and you don't fit in. But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. "No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?"
from interview with Jena Malone
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by their nature and by their identification with eminent artists,
creatively
gifted individuals may put themselves at risk for serious emotional
disturbance.
Specific assistance in managing mood vacillations may be helpful.
Self-care strategies designed for the artistic temperament may be beneficial in minimizing the damage that can occur when the line between rationality and irrationality is crossed and recrossed. There are several resources that describe strategies for self-care. For example, David Wexler's Program for Innovative Self-Management (PRISM) is described in his text, The Adolescent Self : Strategies for Self-management, Self-soothing, and Self-esteem in Adolescents. In addition, he has written two workbooks of exercises designed to help adolescents who are having problems with self-destructive behaviors, anxiety, mood swings, aggression, substance abuse, and eating disorders. from article: Creativity, the Arts, and Madness by Maureen Neihart |
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Natalie Portman is graduating from Harvard this month. "Cambridge is the coolest city in America, but I'll be relieved to go because of the stress and the tough winters... There's a pretty high rate of depression, isolation and craziness." [People / Chatter by Anne Marie Cruz, June 23, 2003]
I think a lot of teenagers feel doubt. They feel they are different from everyone else, and a lot of teenage girls don't get along with their mothers. I also notice a lot of teenage girls not knowing what they want to do with their lives and they get so stressed about it. And I try to tell my friends: "You don't have to know what you want."
Ellen Muth - about her role of "Georgia 'George' Lass" in Showtime series
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My childhood success came and went real fast. Between 12 and 16, I grew -- as much as I was going to, anyway -- and no longer looked the same. Like most child actors, I found it a difficult adjustment. Still, I've done so many things that I wasn't associated with one thing. I'm an actor, not a celebrity. When recognition became an issue a few years ago, part of me felt undeserving. Desperate to maintain my popularity, I was performing all the time.
Then, I caught a glimpse of myself at the MTV Music Awards -- dressed in leather, grasping for jokes -- and set about changing my habits. Now that I've stopped trying so hard, I'm more comfortable in my skin.
Seth Green.....[LA Times May 25, 2003]
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The
nameless program that saved my life is based on a very simple nugget,
which
is one alcoholic talking to another.. finding acceptance and
understanding.
And that's the basis of Teen Line, one teen relating to another. ....Jamie
Lee Curtis....[LA
Times, May 11 2003]
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Line |
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My
daughter, Stephanie Sawyer, and I have been doing the Hollywood
auditions
and movies for ten years. ... Stephanie loves being in front of a
camera.
Loves to audition and participate in the business in any way she can.
...
We have loved and cherished every project we have ever worked on and
they
have become wonderful memories for us. ...
Stephanie is a happy, well adjusted child and I believe that the people that say this business is bad for the children, need to meet more children like her before continuing to lump all children actors and their parents into one bad lump together. All children actors and parents are not the same. Most are excited, happy and grateful to be able to participate in the business and would feel a great loss if it was taken away from them. Sincerely, W. Sawyer ... [from ShowBizKid page: Positive Show Biz Parenting] / photo from stephsawyer.tvheaven.com |
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Hey Hil, when ever ur really upset or stressed do u ever wish, even for a split second, that u weren't an actress or singer?? No, not really because I really love what I'm doing and understand that it can't always be perfect. It's just like going to school or to a job - you have good days and sometimes you have bad days, that's just life! ...xoxo hil*
Hilary Duff - responding to a question posted on message board on her site: hilaryduff.com
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Development of a mood disorder may start early in life. C. Diane Ealy, Ph.D., in her book "The Woman's Book of Creativity" writes: "Many studies have shown us that a young girl's ideas are frequently discounted by her peers and teachers. In response, she stifles her creativity. ... "Repressed creativity can express itself in unhealthy relationships, overwhelming stress, severe neurotic or even psychotic behavior, and addictive behaviors such as alcoholism. But perhaps the most insidious and common manifestation of repressed creativity in women is depression."
from article: Creativity and Depression
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to doubt their competence Children who experience emotional distress from depression and anxiety are prone to viewing themselves and their world in a negative light - and this thinking leads them to underestimate their abilities, suggest the results of a long-term study of nearly 1,000 elementary school children. "These findings are important as they suggest that emotional distress is problematic for development, not only as a negative emotional experience in and of itself, but also because it may be followed by negative views of the self and the world that predict underestimation of competence over time," says lead study author Eva M. Pomerantz, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Three specific negative beliefs associated with emotional distress led children to underestimate themselves. One involved their tendency to blame themselvesfor failures while attributing successes external factors, and another involved feeling uncertain that they could meet performance standards. A third negative belief, low self-esteem, led children to underestimate themselves in the social realm, but not in the academic realm. |
 .. .. In accordance with previous research, Pomerantz and study co-author Karen D. Rudolph found girls to be more vulnerable to emotional distress than boys, and thus more prone than boys to underestimate their competence in all areas but one - the social arena. Strong communication skills may protect girls from underestimating their social competence. from
press release 4-Mar-2003 from Center for the
related book: Current Readings in Child Development image from novel The Hollow Summer |
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Crises
such
as depression, anorexia, drug abuse, pregnancy, bullying, or other
issues
that face an alarming number of young women are hushed and hidden.
Mothers
of girls who struggle with these problems are often invisible, grieving
silently and alone. I know. I was one of them.
Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D. - excerpt on her site - from her book: Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years |
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