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Adolescent Depression: It May Affect You And Your Family Too! |
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The Alternate Medic |
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Adolescent Depression: It May Affect You and your family Too!
The Alternate Medic
The increase in the number of cases of adolescent depression is growing at an alarming rate it is therefore imperative that we take a good look at the current realities of modern adolescent depression and make necessary changes to prevent its growth and proliferation amongst our youth.
The pressures of modern living are also having a detrimental effect on our adolescent youth. Take a look at the following statistics and be amazed.
In case the realities of adolescent depression are not yet clear we are sure that the following statistics will bring the extent of the problem into clear focus. It is important to gain the attention of the general public through concrete concepts that have the power to sway even the most skeptical of minds. Hopefully, even the adolescent youth will begin to understand the problem at hand.
Twenty Percent Of Teenagers Are Sufferers
This fact alone should shock you as the chances are that you or your family may be affected by these numbers. The statistics relating to adolescent depression is that nearly 1 in 5 of the teenage population in the US has experienced a form of clinical depression, even before having gained full adulthood.
As we dig deeper we find that there are about ten to fifteen percent of teenagers that have shown symptoms of adolescent depression and another five percent of the teenage population will have suffered from significant depression.
Another alarming aspect to adolescent depression is the fact that there is little or no social acceptance when it concerns teenagers with depression, and what's worse is the fact that as many as eight percent of these teenagers will have experienced the re-occurrence of their bout of depression at least once a year. Alarm bells should be ringing as only 5% of the total population is diagnosed as suffering from depression.
When a person suffers a bout of adolescent depression it will generally last for about eight months and teenagers are also at risk that the subsequent attack of adolescent depression will strike them within a mere two years and the chances of this happening are about twenty to forty percent, and there is also a seventy percent chance that they will experience another attack of adolescent depression before they have even reached full adulthood.
Again another feature of adolescent depression is seasonal depression, quite a few teenagers will suffer from attacks of. his form of depression which is most likely to strike during the winter, it is also found in places of high altitude. The weather can also play a significant part in the onset of seasonal depression, teenagers and their parents should be mindful of this situation...
Fourthly, other figures related to adolescent depression reveal that dysthymia or a mild form of depression that lasts for a long time will affect about two percent of teenagers and a like percentage of teenagers are also likely to suffer from bipolar depression when they grow older. In fact, it is thought that as many as fifteen percent of teenagers that have suffered from major depression will later on be at risk of developing bipolar depression.
Thus, it is safe to say that adolescent depression will affect teenagers no matter their social background, income level, gender as well as race or even their achievements and that adolescent depression is very common mental health problem affecting teenagers in the US.
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