AX4Teens™ MENTAL HEALTH

You go to bed exhausted. You wake up exhausted. You sleep eight hours, maybe even more, but you still feel like you're dragging yourself through the day. Your coffee intake keeps climbing. Exercise feels harder than it used to. Your heart races when you stand up too quickly. You can't seem to get restorative sleep no matter what you try. If this sounds familiar, iron deficiency may be worth investigating. Most people associate iron deficiency with anemia, but many don't reali

Your child comes home from school and goes straight to their room. They don't want to talk. When you finally get them to open up, the story comes out in pieces: their best friend has been sitting with someone else at lunch. Their friend group made plans without them. Everyone seems to be moving on — and your child feels frozen in place, unable to figure out what went wrong or how to fix it. For most kids, friendship shifts are a normal — if painful — part of growing up. But f

When Hormones, Attention, and Emotional Overwhelm Start to Look the Same Many teenage girls are told they are: “too emotional” “lazy” “dramatic” “disorganized” “overreacting” “not trying hard enough” But sometimes what looks like a behavior problem is actually an untreated medical, hormonal, or neuropsychiatric condition. And sometimes it is more than one condition happening at the same time. At AXXIUMS™, one of the biggest patterns we see in adolescent girls is the overlap b