{"id":699,"date":"2021-06-17T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2021-07-01T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T10:58:39","slug":"teenage-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/teenage-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Adolescence&nbsp;is the period of puberty and&nbsp;psychological maturation.&nbsp;During&nbsp;this period, adolescents behave aggressively or withdraw into&nbsp;themselves, are in a&nbsp;melancholy mood and&nbsp;come into&nbsp;conflict with&nbsp;others.&nbsp;The reason is hormonal changes.&nbsp;Very often, against the&nbsp;background of hormonal changes, adolescent depression develops.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depression in&nbsp;adolescence&nbsp;is a biochemical and&nbsp;neurohormonal process that develops over several weeks or months.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Symptoms of Teenage Depression<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents should see a&nbsp;psychologist if a&nbsp;teenager is&nbsp;feeling discouraged and&nbsp;depressed&nbsp;throughout the week and&nbsp;if there are other&nbsp;signs of depression:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Closure, detachment from&nbsp;friends;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Absent-mindedness, loss of the ability to concentrate;<\/li><li>Irritability;<\/li><li>Appetite changes;<\/li><li>Feeling tired, chronic fatigue;<\/li><li>Complaints of&nbsp;pain in the&nbsp;head, stomach;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Insomnia, increased sleepiness;<\/li><li>Defiant, rebellious behavior (alcohol&nbsp;and&nbsp;drug use, connections with&nbsp;bad companies, problems with the&nbsp;law,&nbsp;etc.);&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Excessive aggression directed at&nbsp;yourself or&nbsp;others;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Suicidal thoughts&nbsp;.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Causes of teenage depression<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For&nbsp;reasons of depression in&nbsp;teens include:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Instability of the nervous system due to hormonal changes in the body;<\/li><li>Psychological stress associated with&nbsp;finding your place in&nbsp;life, changing ideas about&nbsp;life;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Family problems (divorce of parents, constant quarrels, the presence of&nbsp;an alcoholic&nbsp;in the&nbsp;family);&nbsp;<\/li><li>Parental abuse of a&nbsp;child;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Decreased self-esteem, more often in&nbsp;girls;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Experiences associated with&nbsp;first love, or with the&nbsp;first sexual experience;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Indecision;<\/li><li>Decreased&nbsp;school&nbsp;performance&nbsp;;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Diagnosing depression in&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>adolescents<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typically, adolescent depression is diagnosed on the&nbsp;basis of complaints from the child himself or from his parents and&nbsp;teachers, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;psychological tests such as&nbsp;Zung&nbsp;or&nbsp;Beck&nbsp;questionnaires&nbsp;.&nbsp;For the diagnosis of a depressive state, a complex of symptoms is important, because&nbsp;some symptoms can occur in&nbsp;most adolescents.&nbsp;Therefore, the diagnosis should be carried out by a professional psychologist or&nbsp;psychotherapist.&nbsp;Based&nbsp;on the data obtained, the doctor assesses the severity of the disease and&nbsp;chooses the appropriate treatment.&nbsp;It is necessary to find out&nbsp;if the&nbsp;teenager has&nbsp;suicidal&nbsp;thoughts&nbsp;.&nbsp;suicide at&nbsp;this age is very common.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Treating adolescent depression<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;the treatment of adolescent depression using&nbsp;psychotherapy, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;antidepressants.&nbsp;These methods of treatment are often combined.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The psychiatrist&nbsp;conducts&nbsp;psychocorrection sessions&nbsp;with the&nbsp;teenager, helping him to understand&nbsp;himself, to understand the reasons for his painful condition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents should remember that in&nbsp;advanced cases, depression can drive a child to&nbsp;suicide.&nbsp;Therefore, a timely appeal to a&nbsp;psychotherapist is&nbsp;necessary&nbsp;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adolescence&nbsp;is the period of puberty and&nbsp;psychological maturation.&nbsp;During&nbsp;this period, adolescents behave aggressively or withdraw into&nbsp;themselves, are in a&nbsp;melancholy mood and&nbsp;come into&nbsp;conflict with&nbsp;others.&nbsp;The reason is hormonal changes.&nbsp;Very often, against the&nbsp;background of hormonal changes, adolescent depression develops.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Depression in&nbsp;adolescence&nbsp;is a biochemical and&nbsp;neurohormonal process that develops over several weeks or months.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Symptoms of Teenage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}