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When your teenager isolates completely and you don't know whether to intervene

My thirteen-year-old has not left his room in three weeks except for the bathroom and I stand outside his door every morning wondering if today I should call someone or if that will make everything worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent faces the agonizing uncertainty of when care becomes control in the face of their child's withdrawal.

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