Helping Boys with Anxiety Disorder
We can help your son as he suffers with Anxiety Disorder (sometimes called Generalized Anxiety Disorder). This is a chronic condition marked by a harsh and debilitating intensity of fear, which may be accompanied by panic attacks; specific phobias provoked by particular things or situations, and may include social anxiety disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It can be purely mental and emotional, or perhaps include physical symptoms (i.e.: fast pulse rate, excessive sweating, trouble difficulty sleeping). Full-blown attacks can feel paralyzing to those who suffer.
Typically, a diagnosis requires that the anxiety last a minimum of six months.
We’re Here to Help Your Son Who Has Anxiety Disorder
Early Diagnosis and treatment for Anxiety Disorder is essential, in order to keep the anxiety from escalating to the point of clinical depression, maybe leading to self-medicating with alcohol, drugs or other damaging behaviors.
Your boy’s treatment approach might include one or more therapies. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one of the more helpful means for treating high-level anxiety. That approach focuses on pointing out thought patterns that can lead to anxiety, and then blocking negative behaviors by teaching him new responses to those triggering events.
Some children might benefit from medication to help in dealing with anxiety, although others find the side effects too difficult to handle.
As parents, it may be impossibly hard to grasp the underlying cause that triggers such responses in your son, but with early diagnosis and professional help, Anxiety Disorder is generally treated with fairly high rates of success.
Pine Mountain Boys Academy – Offering a Second Chance at a New Life
Many bright young men have been compromised as a result of destructive choices. Boys, who once excelled at academics, now have failing grades. Once athletic or artistically gifted, now showing no interest. Who once looked to family for direction and love, now looks to a negative peer group for approval. You have exhausted every option in your search to help your son – medication, counseling, location changes, and it might be time now for Pine Mountain Boys Academy. Our 15-month, bible-based, therapeutic curriculum is developed to highlight introspective thinking and works hand-in-hand with our Christian counseling. Customized for each student, boys are encouraged to examine areas of their lives that are in need of change.
In addition to Individual Counseling, Group Counseling occurs on a regular basis, guided by the pastoral counselors on staff. This time is utilized to allow students an opportunity to grapple with and resolve commonly faced issues.
The Teen Challenge program provides a safe haven for adolescents who have sought to fill the void in their hearts, only to reap destructive consequences in its place. Our boarding school provides an opportunity for each student to refocus and assess his life decisions. While at Pine Mountain, distractions are limited and we provide an environment conducive to learning; students do not have access to email or social networking sites as they work on their secondary education in our accredited, private school with rigorous, high quality, self-paced curriculum created exclusively for Christian schools.
Our Aftercare program will re-establish your son’s trust, as well as specific responsibilities, conflict resolution and spiritual commitments for his return into your family setting.
Our environment balances discipline with personal responsibility to create a positive peer culture, nurturing students who’ll have been taught indispensable lessons of strong work ethics, teamwork and determination. Your son will leave Pine Mountain Boys Academy making constructive decisions, having true confidence in the unique young man he is, and with a vision for his positive future.
