Depression is one of the most common mental health issues in America, and men tend to keep in their feelings more than women. What are the consequences of keeping our emotions bottled up instead of dealing with them head on? Depression affects men in a much different...
In the 21st century, American lives have gotten incredibly busy. And it isn’t just adults hurrying through various jobs, schooling, moving to make a living somehow—but it is also, indeed, children busy with their different activities. Often, these activities are...
Often, young adults who fail to become independent are being influenced in this behavior by their friends and peers. This can create a negative feedback cycle that is hard to break without help from a professional program like At The Crossroads. Our program...
Every synthesized drug started with a name no one other than a chemist would recognize. However, as these drugs grew in popularity the common names that everyone recognizes emerged. A good example of this is ecstasy. Would you know what someone was talking about if...
If your son or daughter displays outright arrogance towards wiser decision making proposed by those around them, please call the experts at At The Crossroads (ATC). Here ATC, we are staffed by true professionals with decades of combined experience in assisting young...
Recent reports of causes of death have indicated that suicide has overtaken traffic accidents as the number one leading cause of death in the United States. Data suggests an almost 15% rise in suicide rates in the time period between 2000-2009, and drug poisoning...
Statistics continually emphasize the dangers of texting while driving, but people continue to do it. It’s not a new topic and it isn’t even that controversial; yet no matter how many times texting behind the wheel is discussed, the problem never seems to...
We lie. You lie, I lie, we all lie — even without thinking about it sometimes. We often don’t mean to lie—someone asks if we enjoyed something, such as that very atrocious shirt Grandma gave us at Christmas, and because we love Grandma, we reply, “Of course.” Because...
We each have our own story, and the trials and experiences that have come with it. Sometimes, it’s hard to fathom our children having their own story, as they grow and blossom into adulthood. Yet we all started out as young adults once, and all started out with quite...
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage, right? At least that’s how it used to be. These days, sometimes the baby carriage comes first, and everything else comes after that. But why is this the case? And why is this the...
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