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The SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance) ) program is for people with a disability. By law, a disability means that you have a physical or mental condition that interfered with a major life activity. To get this insurance, a person also needs to have paid into the Social Security system through payroll taxes while working or who have parents or spouses that have paid into the system.

New York State allows young people under the age of 18 to receive care when they are pregnant and during labor and delivery without parental consent. Young people have the complete right to privacy, meaning that the health care provider cannot discuss (or disclose) information about you to anyone, including parents or family.

It is very hard in our culture to escape the idea that beauty is associated with thinness. People who suffer from anorexia have intense fear about gaining weight or becoming obese and have a distorted image of their body.
Anorexia mostly affects teenage women but men can suffer from it, too. People who suffer from anorexia have intense fear about gaining weight or becoming obese. If you have anorexia, you are trying to maintain an abnormally low body weight and could be causing danger to yourself through starvation or other means. You can die from anorexia. It is also important for women to know that anorexia can interfere with your getting your period. You can get help if you feel bad about what you look like.
People who suffer from bulimia suffer from binge eating (eating too much or unable to control food intake), followed by behavior that tries to make up for this, like vomiting, fasting, over-exercising. People often feel embarrassed by these behaviors and try to hide them. Bulimia is a serious eating disorder for which you can get help.
Obesity is the condition of having so much excess weight that it affects your health. You can get help for this condition.

Mind-Body Medicine has to do with the ways that the brain, mind, body, and behavior all interact with each other. Stress, for example, can really affect your well-being. Meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy, relaxation techniques, etc. are used to promote personal health.

If you or someone you know is currently in immediate danger of harming themselves or someone else, call 911 now.

Case Management services are designed to support young people with serious emotional disturbance and their families. There are different levels of support, depending on the individual’s and family’s needs.

Clubhouses promote self-help and other services to people in recovery from serious mental illness in terms of employment, artistic expression, housing, education, and social supports in the community.

These Adolescent Skill Centers are designed for young people, ages 16-21 approximately, to help them meet challenges related to mental health, education, employment, and social isolation.

Getting a job requires a lot more than having the skills necessary to do the job. For example, repairing oil burners in people’s houses requires more than knowledge about oil burners. The most important capability may be the ability to communicate. The customers need to feel comfortable with the people coming into their houses to fix their burners. They may have questions they need answered. You may need to call your supervisor or co-worker to get advice or explain what’s going on. Yes, even a job you do on your own like fixing oil burners requires teamwork. You need to be able to work well with other people. .