Teens 101: Depression and Anxiety - Eleanor's Story

Eleanor is difficult to adapt. She was bullied badly at elementary school. There is no difference in high school, but this time she gets extremely frustrating and it gets worse because it comes to have anxiety hindering breathing. This is a pain in her body. She can not enter the room filled with people and can not touch it. Life can not endure it. I need time, support and concentration, but through treatment and medicine, Eleanor has grown into a happy young woman, I am currently working at an institution that will support psychology at the university and support young people with problems.

Since 2012, high school students' anxiety and depression are rising. According to a recently published study by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the number of teenagers experiencing major depressive episodes or MDE has increased by 37% since 2012. In 2015, over 3 million young people experienced MDE. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly 30% of girls and 20% of boys are suffering from anxiety. Unfortunately, this number is less than reality. Because of the cases of unreported MDE caused by the social stigma of mental health still paralyzed in our society.

Teenagers are listening - so they say when I ask them - based on hard wired and / or genetics - depression and anxiety are permanent. There may be genetic factors of anxiety and depression in adolescence, but anxious genes and depression genes are not known and there is no reliable scientific evidence to fully explain the cause of depression. The untreated anxiety of children is one of the most important predictors of adolescence and depression in young people, so this is the fact that most teenagers and parents do not know. And since anxiety is a major mental health problem for young people it is not surprising that the incidence of puberty depression has increased.

The romanticization of mental illness in Tumblr and other social networking sites not only makes the young people insensitive but also makes people of all ages insensitive to signs and symptoms of depression and anxiety. It is now time for society to oppose the upward trend of "beautiful tragedy", spread the ugly truth, there is no tendency of depression

The adolescent youth's feelings are well known, but adolescence - especially confused life - is one of the most vulnerable times of anxiety and depression. According to the American Psychiatric Association, about 50% of cases of psychiatric disorders begin at the age of 14. He said that the tendency of depression and bipolar disorder nearly doubled by 13 to 18 years of age. The warning sign also includes the duration and degree of symptoms. If your child has depression or irritability over 2 days, most of the time is happening, and if you see a change in sleep pattern change, work and social desire, be careful