Depression in youth
Your surrounding has a huge impact on your well being, physical and mental. How you feel, live or act is very much dependent on the attitude of people around you. Your happy or sad mood cannot be separate from the vibes you are getting from other people there. Everything is connected.
Surrounded by negative people, you cannot be having happy vibes. And accompanied by positive people, you will not generally caught by sad feelings. In same way, depression in teens may have a correlation with the sad mood of adults around them or their own early life stress.
Sad faces develop depression in youth
Biased attention among adolescents i.e. teenagers impacts their mood significantly, even developing depression in them. If adolescents pay more attention to sad faces or negative vibes, that increases their chances of being depressive, mostly in response to a stress, says study of Binghamton University.
Moreover, according to previous studies, biased attention to sad faces is related to increasing depression risk in adults. However, this is the first study in itself to examine an association, if any, between facial displays of emotion and depression risk during adolescence. And findings of this study say there is a correlation between the two.
In teenagers, who tend to pay more attention to negative stimuli, chances are more for their being stressful or depressive. When these teens see anything stressful happening around them, they may not have an adaptive response to this stress, but indicate greater rise in depressive symptoms, say the researchers.
Early life stress causes depression
Individuals who faced early life stress are more prone to have depression in childhood or teenage, says another study. A few types of early life stresses such as emotional abuse can cause major depressive disorder, says a study. According to this study of University of British Columbia, other stresses, like poverty, are not likely to cause this depression.
According to earlier studies, early life stress increases depression risk in adulthood. This study aimed at figuring out degree to which early life stress was associated with depression of childhood or adolescence. Early life stress can increase depression risk in children or adolescents more than double than that in adults, say researchers.
Adverse affects of many types of stresses can be associated with depression in children or adolescents, say the research findings. Early life stresses such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, domestic violence and a family member’s death can develop significantly higher risk of major depression disorder in a child or teenager, the study revealed.
Signs of depression in teens
In fact, stress, anxiety and depression symptoms in teens are reportedly increasing over a decade. However, since coronavirus outbreak, the situation has got worse with more cases of depression in adolescents surfacing. Even pre-corona numbers of depression issues reported by teens were very high.A rapid increase in this figure is quite disturbing.
Generally, one in every five adolescents or students suffers from some kind of stress, anxiety or depression in their middle school or high school years. Many teens are reporting about their issues with parents, drug use, being away from friends, can’t stand anybody or suicidal thoughts these days.
To take early steps towards treatment, it’s important to know some basic symptoms of depression. According to experts, the main signs of depression are self isolating, feeling wound up, restlessness, insomnia, indescribable outburst in behavior, drop in academic performance or alcohol or drugs uses.
If you see signs of stress, anxiety, depression in your teenager child, you must take early steps to contain it. Give your teen a happy surrounding with positive vibes. Encourage them for participate in exercise, sports, hobbies or extra curricular activities. If you see the need, you must take help of a specialist in this regard.
