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I'm new to this site and I'm hoping to find some support.
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 448541" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>It could be more than "just" puberty... </p><p>Have you considered the possibility of depression? It takes many forms, and in young males in particular is often missed as depression - the attitudes and behaviors are often taken for defiance etc.</p><p>He may be bright enough to do well in school "on paper" without feeling like he's doing well, because he knows he "should" be able to do better but can't quite put it all together - there can be a raft of very minor disabilities that may not even "register" to those dealing with him, but which taken together are like dragging around a ball-and-chain. After a while, it wears them down - and their previous coping mechanisms don't work so well as they get older and the workload increases. The timing of all of this often coincides with puberty... so puberty gets blamed.</p><p></p><p>But it really might be worth looking into.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 448541, member: 11791"] It could be more than "just" puberty... Have you considered the possibility of depression? It takes many forms, and in young males in particular is often missed as depression - the attitudes and behaviors are often taken for defiance etc. He may be bright enough to do well in school "on paper" without feeling like he's doing well, because he knows he "should" be able to do better but can't quite put it all together - there can be a raft of very minor disabilities that may not even "register" to those dealing with him, but which taken together are like dragging around a ball-and-chain. After a while, it wears them down - and their previous coping mechanisms don't work so well as they get older and the workload increases. The timing of all of this often coincides with puberty... so puberty gets blamed. But it really might be worth looking into. [/QUOTE]
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