Depression

Depression is a serious illness that can affect anybody, including teenagers. It can affect your thoughts, feelings, behavior, and overall health.
 * What is depression ?**

Having depression doesn't mean that a person is weak, or a failure, it means they need treatment. Talking about feelings with a trained psychologist who can help you change the relationships, thoughts, or behaviors that are causing the depression is the best way to get over it. Medicine is used to treat depression that is severe or disabling.
 * How handle depression ?**

Sometimes people get seriously depressed after a divorce in the family, major financial problems, someone you love dying, breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend. But sometimes, depression just happens. Often teenagers react to the pain of depression by getting into trouble: alcohol, drugs, sex, school, bad grades, and problems with family or friends. This is another reason why it's important to get treatment for depression before it leads to other trouble. It is also common for adolescents to occasionally feel unhappy. When the unhappiness lasts for more than two weeks, then he or she may be suffering from adolescent depression. The symptoms of depression could be anxiety, feeling of hopelessness, loss interest in food, compulsive overeating, staying awake at night, or preoccupation of death…
 * What are the symptoms ?**

Adolescence seems to be the best years of life, depression and youth may seem incompatible. But it is a real problem and it is not always easy to go over it, depression can stay for years and years...
 * To conclude...**

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