Wednesday, July 13, 2016

The Eight Signs Natural Teen Depression

The Upon entering adolescence, children in transition. At that time, the condition of children's emotions tend to be unstable. Therefore, faced teenager is not easy. It often makes parents always feel anxious when their child is entering adolescence.


Teenagers also tend to spend more time with his playmate. If this happens, parents will be difficult to know whether their child is in trouble or not.

In 2014, based on the National Institute on Mental Health, about 11.4 percent or 2.8 million teens aged 12 to 17 years suffering from depression. Depression and bipolar disorder are more common things that are also found in adolescents under the age of 18 years.

To know the symptoms of depression, parents can find out some specific symptoms that could be a red flag for them to realize that a child is depressed, as said Stephanie Dowd, a psychologist at the Child Mind Institute, New York. Reporting from Real Simple, here are some symptoms that appear when a child is a natural depression.

More moody than usual
Dowd and other experts say, usually teenagers would feel sad, be grumpy or even both of them almost all the time in a week to two weeks, and even more.

loss of interest
Usually children eagerly do what you love and used to do, like playing football, piano, guitar, but suddenly the child loses interest in such matters. Clinically this is called anhedonia, and this is a warning sign.

Withdraw
Kids no longer want to play with friends and family.
There is a big change in life

Ratings began to fall, began exposing the arguments than usual, the relationship began to move away. "His life is significantly affected, in a consistent way," said Dowd.

Changing eating and sleeping habits
Children become less or more food, and has nothing to do with the purpose of doing a diet. It is also having trouble sleeping, or even more sleep than usual. Or feel fatigue and low motivation despite having enough sleep.

Feeling good
Adolescent depression will feel worthless and guilty about something that was not even his fault.

Engage in risky habits
Think about things like substance abuse or promiscuity. "If there is a change in the habits of teenagers, or even changed in an extreme way, such as the start does not care about his life, parents should pay attention here."

Hurt yourself
It has become a serious warning for parents and children had to be immediately admitted to a mental health professional.

By Dhe NCC

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