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Understanding Teen Depression Symptoms

Teen depression is a severe mental illness that results in prolonged sadness and lack of interest in activities. It impacts adolescents' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and can lead to emotional, practical, and health issues. While depression can occur at any age, teen and adult symptoms may differ. For some teens, periods of low mood are a sign of depression rather than normal emotions in response to peer pressure, physical changes, or academic expectations. Teen depression requires long-term treatment to avoid catastrophic consequences, as it cannot be easily overcome through effort alone. Symptoms include changes in emotions like sadness, anger, hopelessness, guilt; and behaviors such as fatigue, sleep issues, disinterest in activities.

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Understanding Teen Depression Symptoms

Teen depression is a severe mental illness that results in prolonged sadness and lack of interest in activities. It impacts adolescents' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and can lead to emotional, practical, and health issues. While depression can occur at any age, teen and adult symptoms may differ. For some teens, periods of low mood are a sign of depression rather than normal emotions in response to peer pressure, physical changes, or academic expectations. Teen depression requires long-term treatment to avoid catastrophic consequences, as it cannot be easily overcome through effort alone. Symptoms include changes in emotions like sadness, anger, hopelessness, guilt; and behaviors such as fatigue, sleep issues, disinterest in activities.

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MAIN TOPIC: TEENAGE ISSUES


SUB TOPIC: DEPRESSION

What is depression?
Overview
Teen depression is a severe mental illness that results in a lingering sense of
melancholy and a lack of interest in activities. It has an impact on your
adolescent's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and can lead to emotional,
practical, and health issues. While depression can strike at any age,
adolescent and adult symptoms could differ.
Teens may have highs and lows due to issues like peer pressure, changing
bodies, and scholastic expectations. However, for some teenagers, the lows
are a sign of depression rather than merely passing emotions.
Teen depression takes long-term care and can have catastrophic
implications, so it's not something that can be conquered easily or with
effort.
Signs and symptoms
A shift from the adolescent's prior attitude and behaviour is one of the
indications and symptoms of teen depression, and it can result in serious
unhappiness and issues at home, at school, in social situations, and in other
aspects of life.
The intensity of depression symptoms varies, but your teen's emotions and
behaviour may exhibit any of the following changes.
Changes in emotions
Watch out for shifts in your emotions, such as:
Sadness-related emotions, which may include uncontrollably sobbing fits
Anger or frustration, especially with trivial issues
Feeling hollow or hopeless
Feeling irritable or irritated
Loss of enjoyment or interest in routine activities
Disinterest in or disagreement with family and friends
Low regard for oneself
Feelings of guilt or unworthiness
A fixation on mistakes made in the past, excessive self-blame, or self-
criticism
High desire for reassurance and extreme sensitivity to rejection or failure
Difficulty focusing, thinking, remembering, and making judgements
Persistent perception of gloom and doom in life and the future
Frequent thoughts of suicide, death, or dying
Modifications in behaviour
Keep an eye out for behavioural shifts like:
Fatigue and a decrease in vitality
Lack of sleep
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