Adjustment Disorders

Are you experiencing significant impairment in your social, academic or occupational functioning as a result of a painful or stressful situation? Are you feeling depressed or despondent because of this change in your life situation? Are you feeling tearful or hopeless; nervous or jittery? Are your behaviors becoming out of control and/or unlawful (ie: reckless driving, fighting, defaulting on legal responsibilities, vandalism, truancy)? Are you withdrawing socially and/or have more physical complaints as a result of this change in lifestyle?

These stressful situations may be (but not limited to) any of the following:

• The termination of a romantic relationship
• Marked business difficulties
• Marital problems
• Seasonal business crises
• Natural disaster
• Living in a crime-ridden neighborhood
• Repeated arguing with peers
• Relocating
• Going away to school
• Leaving home for the first time
• Getting married (adjusting to the interdependence and accountability of a new marriage)
• Giving birth/becoming a parent
• Failing to obtain occupational goals
• Retirement
• Divorce/financial & emotional difficulties resulting from divorce
• Chronic disabling general medical condition
• Loss of a loved one
• Other loss