Teen Depression

Teen depression

The most common signs of a teen depression are quite distinct if parents try to look for unusual behavior. Some of them are: no mood to go out and meet friends, spending most of the day sleeping, staying in the room more than usual, trouble focusing, forgetting occasionally and having hard time to prepare for finals. Sounds familiar? Then your daughter or son might be going through a teen depression. All teenagers have that in some point in their lives. Yet most teenagers don’t really know why they feel sad all the time and can’t shake it off. Depression is has become such a common thing that it affects 1 in 8 people in our teen years.

So how should we respond to depressed teenagers?
Respond with kindness, love and support. You can offer to listen if the person is willing to share. However if the depression doesn’t go away, you may encourage the depressed teen to try referring to a doctor, therapist, or a counselor. However nothing beats the love and care of the family and close relatives.

Some parents don’t fully understand what it’s like for a teenager going through depression. They react to a depressed teenager with yelling, criticism which may just aggravate her or his current state. Unfortunately teen depression is not an attitude problem or a mood issue that a person can just get rid of. It’s a lot more difficult than that.

Teenagers are just like adults get depressed all the time. And so far science has no direct answer what causes depression. However there are many factors that may contribute such hereditary traits, genetics, environment, life events, medical conditions, and the way people accept things that have impact on their lives.
Research tells us that depression runs in families, although genes are piece of the puzzle, they aren’t the really the direct cause of depression.