When Leo began showing anger, causing tension at home and at school and seeing a decline in grades, his mom says things got to a point that they knew that something had to change. They needed help figuring out what was going on.
Leo was 11 at the time.
"He had a lot of angry outbursts, and he wasn't talking about what he was feeling and what was going on," says his mom, Jacinda, who asked that her family's last name not be published. That's when they talked with their primary care physician "about whether professional help was the right thing."