What Are The Different Forms Of Depression ?
| Anxiety and depression are the most often cited terms while describing the health of adolescents and teenagers. The prime reason for this is stress that develops in their little minds either due to increased expectations in academics or negligent parents or abused childhood. |
Apart from these, stress also builds up in teenagers due to parents who are unavailable for providing emotional support.
Anxiety and stress in teenagers leads to several complications. There are many different forms of depression. Some the symptoms shown by stressed out teenagers include emotional dependence, intense aggressive behavior, shyness, compulsive eating disorder, anorexia, sleeping disorders, and a reckless attitude. However, many teenagers who are unable to cope up with the amount of stress often tend to suffer from severe depression.
Depression leads to loss in confidence, motivation and interest affecting the academic performance of the teenager. Apart from this, depression also results in building up of suicidal tendency, ‘self-mutilation’, drug abuse, alcoholism, smoking, unsafe sex and criminal activity. Some of the symptoms of depression include persistent gloominess on the face, falling academic performance and a lack of interest in performing tasks. Apart from that, depression is also associated with the symptoms mentioned for anxiety.
The most appropriate treatment for reducing depression is to reduce stress. Parents should be aware of probable stress-related symptoms so as to find measures to get rid of them. Children should be encouraged to learn stress management techniques such as building relationships with family members, spending time doing communal activities, going out on a vacation, playing around with friends and being helpful to neighbors. Laughter is the best medicine to get rid of stress. One can join the nearest laughter club for this purpose. Apart from these, schools also should implement changes in their educational system so that students do not get overburdened with academic pressures.
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