Knowing More about Depression in Children and Teenagers: How to Help Your Family Cope with This Condition...

By Dueep Jyot Singh

Table of Contents

Introduction
Proper Child Discipline
Does Your Child Have Faith in You?
Some tips about coping with “depression”
That Anxiety Creating Word - “Fear”
The Environment of Your Home
Conclusion
Author Bio
Publisher

Introduction

This normal healthy girl is just tired out, physically, and mentally. Never ever let anyone persuade you that your child is “depressed,” just because he/she is not cheerful 24/7.

Do you know that a number of researchers and statistics gatherers decided to collect some data on the number of children and teenagers suffering from depression, in the USA alone. In 2005, there were 8.7%. In 2014, there were 11.5% of these patients, which meant that there was an increase of 37%!

I really cannot understand on which basis they decided that children of a particular age group were considered to be depressive? These children were growing through adolescence, and every year, there would be a new generation of children entering their teens and growing through the pains of growing up, including hormonal changes, changes in their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual outlook. All these changes are natural. But suddenly, somebody decided that those changes and the change in the behavior patterns were symptoms of what some Doctor decided Was Clinical Depression. And all the rest of his Doctor ilk went along with those symptoms and theories.

So any normal, healthy, red blooded physically and mentally strong and healthy child could be diagnosed as being suffering from clinical depression, just because he was suffering through growing pangs, or was just being naturally rebellious or was just feeling gloomy because he wanted to be left alone, for a little while?

This book is going to tell you all about children and teenagers, who have unfortunately been inflicted with this particular mental disorder by adults who should have known better. That is because they say that depression is a mental disorder, known as melancholia. Everybody knows that a mind can go through natural ups and downs, depending on a large number of fact is, which may include stress, strain, trauma, emotional loss, hormonal changes, especially during childbirth, adolescence, and menopause, and other factors, and all of these are natural conditions, which occur in the lifetime of an average human being. You are going to feel sad, at the physical loss of someone you held dear. You are going to feel helpless, bereft, and sad.

Doctors down the ages had a very good solution for such persons – they gave them laudanum, so that those people could go off to sleep. In the 20th century, those doctors decided to give them sleeping pills. In the 21st century, they decided to give them antidepressants.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books
• Release date: Oct 29, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370118694

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Knowing More about Depression in Children and Teenagers

How to Help Your Family Cope with This Condition…

Dueep Jyot Singh

Healthy Learning Series

Mendon Cottage Books

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Proper Child Discipline

Does Your Child Have Faith in You?

Some tips about coping with depression

That Anxiety Creating Word - Fear

The Environment of Your Home

Conclusion

Author Bio

Publisher

Introduction

This normal healthy girl is just tired out, physically, and mentally. Never ever let anyone persuade you that your child is depressed, just because he/she is not cheerful 24/7.

Do you know that a number of researchers and statistics gatherers decided to collect some data on the number of children and teenagers suffering from depression, in the USA alone. In 2005, there were 8.7%. In 2014, there were 11.5% of these patients, which meant that there was an increase of 37%!

I really cannot understand on which basis they decided that children of a particular age group were considered to be depressive? These children were growing through adolescence, and every year, there would be a new generation of children entering their teens and growing through the pains of growing up, including hormonal changes, changes in their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual outlook. All these changes are natural. But suddenly, somebody decided that those changes and the change in the behavior patterns were symptoms of what some Doctor decided Was Clinical Depression. And all the rest of his Doctor ilk went along with those symptoms and theories.

So any normal, healthy, red blooded physically and mentally strong and healthy child could be diagnosed as being suffering from clinical depression, just because he was suffering through growing pangs, or was just being naturally rebellious or was just feeling gloomy because he wanted to be left alone, for a little while?

This book is going to tell you all about children and teenagers, who have unfortunately been inflicted with this particular mental disorder by adults who should have known better. That is because they say that depression is a mental disorder, known as melancholia. Everybody knows that a mind can go through natural ups and downs, depending on a large number of fact is, which may include stress, strain, trauma, emotional loss, hormonal changes, especially during childbirth, adolescence, and menopause, and other factors, and all of these are natural conditions, which occur in the lifetime of an average human being. You are going to feel sad, at the physical loss of someone you held dear. You are going to feel helpless, bereft, and sad.

Doctors down the ages had a very good solution for such persons – they gave them laudanum, so that those people could go off to sleep. In the 20th century, those doctors decided to give them sleeping pills. In the 21st century, they decided to give them antidepressants.

These drugs, of course, have side effects, which are going to make you feel more depressed and soon you are going to get dependent on these antidepressants in order to try to get back to a normal state of mind. That of course is never possible, because your mind, body, heart and soul could cure itself naturally, given time, because that is how nature works. But you have now been given medicines which are going to affect the working of your body, and mind, thought, and feelings, emotions and behavior, all under the guidance of your best friend, the doctor.

Thanks to this word depression becoming so common in the vocabulary of everybody who can read a couple of books, or can get access to the Internet, let me tell you that this is being considered to be a mental illness. Historically, especially in ancient times, everybody knew that people, could be brought down mentally and emotionally with a sort of heaviness of spirits, made one feel sad and depressed. But they had their own rough and ready methods to take care of such problems.

One was that people never allowed other people to isolate themselves. That is because they believed that this was a sort of encouragement to any form of mental or physical problems. And I think they are right, because such a person could brood over his state of being neglected or ill used, unfairness of the world, and how he was not being treated in a manner to which he had been accustomed.

As time went by, people, who were once used, to their own social conditions and family background, were encouraged by the popular press to believe that they were better or of a higher social standing, then what they actually were in reality. And when they came back to reality, this bit of escapism had not worked for them, and so they grew more discontented, impatient, shrewish, and ill tempered. Today doctors would call them as people suffering from depression.

In the 16th century, these sort of social climbing toad-eaters were laughed at, especially,