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Depression in adolescents.
By Penny | July 17, 2007
A big pointer to adolescent depression is when the teenager or child gets angry often, or happens to overreact to his or her own frustration. This may be more than adolescent defiance as there may be underlying depression, which manifests it in the form of anger of an irrational type.
The depressed adolescent may take to banging the head against the wall, verbally hurling abuse and getting into fights at school. If the adolescent also takes to making statements of despair, you can be sure that this is another symptom of adolescent depression, which can be especially disturbing to those close to the adolescent.
You should try and communicate with such a depressed adolescent, and get him or her to discuss the writings, sayings as well as drawings, as it may help get the child or adolescent to get out of whatever is causing the depressed person to do and say such things.
Topics: depression, teen depressions, teenage depressions |