The Girls and Boys Town National Hotline is a 24-hour crisis, resource and referral line. Trained counselors can respond to your questions every day of the week, 365 days a year. We can help teens and parents with suicide prevention, depression, school issues, parenting troubles, runaways, relationship problems, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, chemical dependency, anger and much more.

Any problem anytime... the Girls and Boys Town National Hotline is here to help. In 2006, nearly 450,000 children and families were helped through the Girls and Boys Town National Hotline, and over the past decade, more than 7 million callers have found help at the end of the line.

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Working through your grief can be a painful process, but it is necessary to ensure your future emotional and physical well-being. Experts believe that if you don’t mourn when your loss is fresh, the grief may stay bottled up inside you and cause emotional problems or physical illness later on. (helpguide.org)

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Eating disorders are not due to a failure of will or behavior; rather, they are real, treatable medical illnesses in which certain maladaptive patterns of eating take on a life of their own. The main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. A third type, binge-eating disorder, has been suggested but has not yet been approved as a formal psychiatric diagnosis. Eating disorders frequently develop during adolescence or early adulthood, but some reports indicate their onset can occur during childhood or later in adulthood. (NIMH)

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For many people, their parents' divorce marks a turning point in their lives, whether the divorce happened many years ago or is taking place right now. (Teen Health)

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink,
then the drink takes you. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Different substances lend themselves to different groups of symptoms. The most glaring symptom in all cases is a change, sometimes a radical one, in behavior. (National Youth Network)

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Most people with a depressive illness do not seek treatment, although the great majority even those whose depression is extremely severe can be helped. Thanks to years of fruitful research, there are now medications and psychosocial therapies such as cognitive/behavioral, “talk” or interpersonal that ease the pain of depression. (NIMH)

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Bullying is when a person is picked on over and over again by an individual or group with more power, either in terms of physical strength or social standing.

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Why Do Teens Self-Injure?

Teens who have difficulty talking about their feelings may show their emotional tension, physical discomfort, pain and low self-esteem with self-injurious behaviors. Although they may feel like the "steam" in the "pressure cooker" has been released following the act of hurting themselves, teenagers may also feel hurt, anger, fear and hate.(Self-Injury and Teens)

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