Adolescence and twenty years are perhaps between the two periods of life richest in experiences and experiences, which remain forever in the baggage of memories of people. Positive, precious, joyful experiences of self-discovery and of the world. Negative, frustrating, angry, sad experiences, which lead to close like a hedgehog. For better or for worse, the period from middle school to almost thirty years is considered by mental health professionals and not, one of the most crucial periods of development.
Adolescence: difficulties and changes
Yet, despite the great difficulties that can be encountered along the way, it is always difficult to be able to ask for a hand, help to get out of a difficult situation. The sources of difficulty can be the most varied. From family difficulties to school difficulties, feeling less concentrated, disinterested in your future. Or love disappointments, conflicts with peers, violence, difficulties in dealing with one's own emotions and those of others, facing changes in one's own body, discovering one's own sexuality. Or even the transition from school to university, the first responsibilities to bear, the beginning of a job, the discovery of adult life. Whatever the source of suffering, it deserves to be cured.
Psychological consultation and psychotherapy at a young age
For this reason, psychological counseling or psychotherapy in young people play a key role in promoting not only current but also future mental health. The path of consultation or psychotherapy allows you to discover new ways to deal with the difficulties you experience, discover more about yourself, live with curiosity that you have inside and improve your standard of living.
The period of adolescence and early adulthood is, in fact, the period most characterized by the curiosity to know better themselves and others. Reflections on the course of one's existence, on relationships, desires for the future and the concerns of the present. The urge to know the world and oneself can be stopped in conditions of anxiety or depression, stagnating one's mind in regulation, concern, and regret what one has not managed to build for one's life. Even understanding who you are becoming, what kind of person you will become, can leave you bewildered, disconcerted, uncertain.
Young people declare themselves dissatisfied
In Italy, according to SIP sources, about 10% of young people declare themselves dissatisfied with their lives, presenting situations of emotional difficulty. Sufferings due to various forms of depression and anxiety, loss of pleasure in the various spheres of their lives, use of substances or risky behaviors, such as gambling or self-procured wounds, up to the most painful ideas or acts of suicide.
All these risk factors deserve to be treated and treated with appropriate psychological intervention. Psychotherapy or psychological consultation often has the stamp of long, heavy interventions to support or that will not have an immediate beneficial effect. International research, on the other hand, shows how much the effects of psychodynamic psychotherapies bring benefits in the short and long term not only on the emotional and physical symptoms but also in the overall functioning of the person who requires psychological help.
Psychotherapy in the Evolutionary Age
Psychotherapy is an opportunity that you can choose to improve your emotional state, your difficulties, to better know yourself and the world you live in. A valuable help during a phase of life full of doubts and difficulties. A space dedicated to yourself, where you can work together with experienced and attentive professionals, who value the subjective experiences, without judgments or simplifications.
The difficulty of asking for psychological help can be one of the most difficult obstacles to overcome, because of embarrassment, shame worries that you do not know or even the concern that this question will lead to discovering greater suffering, more frightening. The possibility of undertaking a psychological journey at a young age, however, allows us to face these sufferings and thus to have a more serene present and future. It is an investment in one's life and happiness, discovering new resources and new horizons within oneself.