Adoloscent Medical Advice

There are So many complications for a child. For a developing adolescent the complications increase even more. What is adolescence? That period of life when you had experienced the greatest changes physically and mentally, when you cared more about the acne on your face rather than the grades on our sheet, when you felt the first changes like the stubbles or break in your voice, when everything in the world seems beautiful yet ugly, that’s adolescence for you. It is the period of transition from a child to an adult. This is a period full of turbulence like a storm in the sea. This is typically the period of teenage where they do not understand whether they are adults or not. This is the period of time when their body grows and matures faster than their mind and thus results in a caged animal feeling for the individual. There are a lot of physical and mental struggles involved and even though most people do not realize it proper medical counseling is available to get through this stage smoothly.

To understand the turbulence of adolescence we need to know what exactly is happening in that stage of life. After the primary growth changes like height and body proportions there comes the secondary changes called as secondary sexual changes that starts as early as 13 years of age [this is why adolescences and teen age are said to be linked]. Secondary sexual characters are husky voice and break in voice, development of pubic hair and secondary hair like moustache and beard, onset of menstrual cycle in women and growth of testis in male etc. the onset of these indicate the secondary growth of he body. This is all followed by a change in the body hormone levels like testosterone for boys or estrogen for girls. The pituitary gland secretes these and these are the hormones that trigger the secondary sexual development. These changes sets in the body before the mind of a child is prepared in most cases, and many a times parents are reluctant to talk about all these changes openly to a child. Many feel that their child still has time and that such things are taboo and that parents are not to teach these. This leaves behind an adult body in a Childs mind with hormones raging through the blood. What else can you expect in such cases other than a raging teenager? These teenagers either sort to illicit means of exploring their sexuality or tend to get addicted to their new sensations and waste their time and life on it. They may even remain ignorant of their sexuality. Whatever maybe the outcome it will not be for the betterment of the individual. This is the reason why many teenagers tend to get addicted to drinking, smoking and drugs as they have no one to guide them through this tough stage and they tend to be directed by the peer. How many teenagers had taken up smoking or drinking because of their friends or impressive personalities in their neighborhood? Studies have shown that all anti social activities among youngsters develops in their teen age and it is caused mostly due to their social, economic and neighborhood status. With proper guidance at this age youngsters can channel all their energy and efforts for constructive and useful purpose making them better and more talented at the same time. This is the time when their learning capacity is also at its peak and proper education of not only theoretical education but also of morals, values and practical life. Fears or phobias, instability, irrational nervousness and lack of social skills are a few of the common problems adolescents tend to have and it becomes essential to correct each and every one of these problems at this stage of life itself or else it will continue throughout their life. The best solution for these would be an open talk between the parents and the child and also a professional counseling with a psychologist.

All parents and adolescent kids can have a counseling with a therapist. There is a specialty on adolescent health and mental care. First of all a doctor or parents who have been counseled by medical professional can start explaining the child at the age of 13 about their body anatomy. A good knowledge on their body’s anatomy will help them in understanding their growth better. Once they know and realize that the changes that are happening in their body is normal many a times parents find that the individual is more subdued. Then they have to be educated on sex and the developments associated with it and relate it to them. This is a very delicate phase and it must be handled carefully.

Excessive emphasis on the pleasure aspect of sex tends to make them too curious and excessive shunning of it will even make them hate their sexuality. Both of these are dangerous as the first will make a person very unstable and the second will make them even impotent mentally. By giving proper medical explanation of the changes that are happening in their body they tend to grow mentally along with their body and thus be a lot more understanding than they will be if left un-counseled. Unless they realize that their emotional surges are nothing more than hormonal changes they may tend to make the wrong decisions as in the case of juvenile love. Many adolescents believe that they are experiencing true love for someone at that stage and make mistakes that they cannot correct. Most teenage marriages are because of the hormonal instability and it explains the reason for various relation ships that seemed to be perfect in your teen age to be nothing more than blind lust triggered by the hormones. Once the hormones settle then the rational thinking sets in and all the decisions made before that seem absurd and results in a life that is chaotic. Proper medical counseling will enable them to realize that their decisions have to be thought over many a times in order for them to be rational. Indeed such training can make an individual very well organized and may help him or her in their future.

Identifying abnormalities in this development is also essential and this counseling will help identifying late immaturity and other problems, which might be unnoticed by the individual till then. Identifying mental abnormalities is also possible in this stage. Mental instability is at its peak in the adolescent age. Psychological counseling at late teen age is very advisable as it helps in the development of the individual. The elevated hormones tend to make them very adventurous and wild. It becomes essential to divert their attention and interests in constructive means rather than letting them grow by peer pressure. It must be a perfect balance of advice and support along with encouragement of their ideas as well. If the ideas are forced into them they tend to be rebellious and if left unconcerned they always tend to grow in the wrong direction. This is precisely why proper medical professionals are suitable for advising on this. It is not easy to find medical advice in leisure for all this but there are means like teleconferencing and web chat through which medical professionals can communicate with you in your home for such matters and this is more preferred than in an unknown location.