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Inside The Consulting Room. Episode 9. The Exploding Adolescent
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He walks in without ringing the bell, drops into the chair, and hits me with: “Can we just get this over with?” From that first moment, I’m working with an “exploding adolescent,” a fifteen-year-old whose home life is full of conflict, whose school day can flip from calm to chaos in seconds, and whose anger seems to arrive without warning.
I slow the story down and look beneath the behavior: adolescent brain development, affect dysregulation, and the uneasy clash between autonomy and belonging. When the limbic system is on high alert and the prefrontal cortex is still…
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