Impulse: Constructions of Identity among Adolescence
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Dramatic changes in personality.
Issues and trouble with friends and loved ones.
Difficulty concentrating.
Signs of depression.
Signs that your teenager may be involved in substance abuse.
Change in quality of schoolwork.
Listlessness.
Changes in sleeping habits.
Changes in eating habits.
Doesn't worry about appearance.
Expresses the thought that no one cares.
Talks about suicide.
Considers running away.
Difficulty coping with a teen pregnancy.
Expresses a desire to stay home from school frequently.
Complains regularly of being sick.
Visits Web sites and joins social networks that discuss suicide, or associates online with people who are making suicide pacts.
Writes poems or stories, or draws pictures of, death.
Makes plans to take own life.
Previous suicide attempt.