Why is depression in adolescents more and more common? What should we do?

, about 30 million young people under the age of 17 in my country suffer from various emotional disorders and behavioral problems; the number of suicides due to depression is as high as 200,000, and the trend is increasing year by year. In addition, the total number of admissions for adolescent depression in our hospital has also risen sharply. It can be seen that the younger age of depression is an indisputable fact.

So, what are the reasons for the increasing prevalence of depression in adolescents? How should early recognition be carried out? What should we do in the face of teenage depression?

Why is youth depression more and more common?

The pressure brought by external things

In the process of growing up, they have to face the high hopes given by their parents, and also have to bear the pressure from their parents and learning. Therefore, for them, the pressure is no less than that of adults. Facing study every day, facing the pressure of family and so on.

What's more, when they faced problems, they did not get timely response and effective solutions from their families. They often endured more unbearable injuries than adults. Because they don't know how to digest these pressures, and they can't solve some problems on their own. Over time, they will lose confidence in life and become full of disappointment in themselves, and they are likely to suffer from depression.

Personality reasons

Some children are born with a very introverted and non-talkative personality. It is not said that this personality will definitely lead to depression. But this kind of character is actually a kind of inferiority complex. Introverted children are generally able to keep things in their hearts. When something happens at school or at home, children will choose to hide silently in their hearts. If parents do not communicate and enlighten their children in time, there is a high chance that the children will be depressed.

family genetic history

Scientific research shows that depression has a certain heredity, which means that any parent or elder in the family has a history of depression.The incidence of self and children is higher than that of ordinary people. Therefore, families in this situation should take care of their children's emotions more seriously and carefully.

The characteristics of adolescent depression

emotional abnormality

taciturn, discouraged, dull-eyed, unwilling to communicate with others, like to shut themselves off and lose interest in all learning and activities. Severe patients are often unable to control themselves because of a trivial matter, can't help crying, and become more introverted, paranoid, unwilling to meet people, and sometimes irritable, tantrums, and impulsive.

revolt against their parents

Some students are often subjected to strict parental discipline, or lack the warmth of the family, and their personality becomes depressed. When you are a little older, you dare to "confront" your parents and confront your parents everywhere. The mild ones are lazy to get up, eat, do not clean up the room, and do not talk to their parents; the severe ones will cry, run away from home, or even commit suicide.

Bad hints

There are two main aspects: one is subconscious, when the patient reacts fiercely when exposed to things that make him sensitive, and symptoms such as dizziness, palpitation, difficulty breathing, abdominal pain and diarrhea appear. On the other hand, patients make conscious bad guesses. For example, they always think that their test scores are not satisfactory, their relationship with teachers and classmates is not good, and they have caused trouble to others.

How to prevent depression in adolescents

1. Build confidence, step out of the haze, and reshape a good personality. Make yourself more cheerful, open, more sunny and optimistic.

2. When encountering setbacks and feelings of depression, talk to family and friends more often, open up your heart, don't hold yourself in your heart, if you get the care and persuasion of your family, you will quickly get out of the trough.

3. A wide range of hobbies can drive depressed emotions,Good for mood regulation and emotional release.

4. Objectively locate the target and face everything calmly. In many cases, people's negative emotions are caused by the fact that reality is contrary to their desired goals or the gap is far. The less you can get, the more you want to think about it, which invisibly puts too much pressure on yourself.

5. Take the initiative to seek professional help; if you have tried a lot of self-regulation methods, but you do not get better, you must take the initiative to inform your family members and ask for help from professionals with your family's company.

Many patients have a strong sense of stigma, fear social discrimination, and refuse to conduct standardized treatment. However, when choosing to go to the internal medicine department for medical treatment, the physician simply emphasized the physical symptoms, concealed his emotional problems, stubbornly believed that his emotions would be relieved after the physical symptoms improved, and ignored the "heart" treatment, which caused a certain degree of missed diagnosis and non-diagnosis. Standardized treatment delayed one's own condition.

Therefore, depression requires systematic and standardized diagnosis and treatment to effectively combat it. It is not just chatting, talking, and enlightening in our usual sense, nor is it simple psychological consultation, but professional Psychological treatment methods. This requires standardized treatment and the support and cooperation of patients, family members and friends.