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You make plans with your friend and she cancels
on you because she has a sore throat, and

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you worry incessantly that she's mad at you.

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You show your art project to your brother,
and he rolls his eyes, and you start balling.

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Your parents are driving you crazy. You're
happy one minute. You're sad the next.

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Any of this sound familiar? You are going
to experience a lot of emotional changes during

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puberty. And all of this is normal.

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The reason you're experiencing this is because
the hormones that are responsible for all

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those changes going on in your body, are also
working overtime on the inside of your body.

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On your mind and your emotions.

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All of this is normal. Mood swings. Emotional
changes. Feeling upset. Feeling angry. Feeling

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happy.

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And you can feel these things all at once
at all different times. And it can go from

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one emotion to the next very quickly and very
easily.

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This is a normal part of puberty. And, a lot
of it is, I imagine, has to do with your hormones.

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There are things you can do to try to cope
with these emotional changes.

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One of them is just speak to someone that
you trust. Knowing that other people are going

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through this, and I promise you they are,
goes a lot in helping you to make it through

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and cope with these changes.

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Another is, try not to react immediately.
Try to count down from ten to one, if you

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can. And while this may seem, like, very obvious
advice, just taking a time out to relax and

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to give yourself a minute to breathe, may
not trigger such an emotional reaction. That's

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really important too.

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Also, try go get enough sleep. People that
don't get enough sleep tend to have emotional

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issues and mood swings that are much worse
than people who are well rested.

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Exercise is so important. It goes a long way
in controlling your mood swings.

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And, finding things that make you relax. Whether
it's yoga, Pilates. Whatever it is. Drinking

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camomile tea. Anything that works to relax
you will make you get through this time of

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emotional change in puberty which, by the
way, is normal, much more easily than not.

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And just remember. We all go through it. We've
all been there. And you're going to make it

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too.