PUV Patients and Mental Wellbeing

You know, we talked about one of the um key members of our team being the uh psychosocial and uh mental health and well-being. Um, we cannot emphasize that enough, you know, living. First of all, being a teenager nowadays is challenging enough. There's so many different stresses that they have that some of us didn't have when we were growing up as teenagers, you know, the instant on always on digital life that we have, um, and you add to that living with a chronic medical illness and being considered slightly different than their peers, all of this adds stress and can impact a sense of well-being. A sense of one's body image and by having our healthcare providers that are trained to be listeners and hear what your child's saying and provide them with coping mechanisms is really important. We do see a number of teenagers start to act out as they become older, uh, with the why me? Why am I the one affected with this? Why am I going through all this? Uh, it's a very natural response and provided the appropriate coping mechanisms we can ensure that they don't take that acting out to a dangerous level. Uh, so it is something that we would strongly urge, uh, even going and meeting with the school counselor to say, how's your child doing in the environment of the high school, uh, with the peers and meeting with your counselor with your child and the parents together as a team meeting is something that we would strongly recommend.