Teenage depression

Hi everybody! Today I'm going to talk about an interesting article about psychology. This article named “The kids aren't all right”, talks about increase of depression in teenager.

In general, make a diagnosis of depression is a very hard work, because symptoms are varied and are not presented in the same way in different people. Also, in adolescence this diagnosis is more complicated.

Then, the question in this problem is why are children being diagnosed at ever younger ages? Is it that we are getting better at diagnosing depression in teens? Or is it, that doctors in the UK have followed those in the US and started to medicalise the normal ups and downs of adolescence?

To answer that question, this text describes different stories about teenagers. For example, talks about a girl of 13 years old, called Amy, who she was depressed. She tells about the beginnings of her depression, she says for example: “Everything started to feel meaningless… Before long, I started to self-harm." Moreover, the article shows the difficult of her parents for noticing this psychological problem and describes the consequences of prescribing antidepressants, too.

Anyway, the most important thing is that this trend is very concern, because teens are more vulnerable that adults and is very possible that a depression with an early beginning continues in the time if it is not treated.

Finally, If you are interested in this topic, you can visit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/sep/18/children-depression-antidepressants. In this website you will find the complete article.