What Are the Causes of Depression in Adolescence?

Adolescents are a group that has received much attention from society and families. Adolescent depression is more likely to attract attention from families and society. Adolescent depression will affect their physical and mental growth to a certain extent. Therefore, the treatment of adolescent depression must be timely. Thoroughly, as parents, take more care in the daily care of adolescent depression patients. So, what are the manifestations of adolescent depression? And how to distinguish correctly? In this regard, experts said that the most common symptoms of adolescent depression are summarized in six categories:

Adolescent depression

Introduction to Adolescent Depression

Adolescent depression symptoms

Adolescent depression

According to a psychiatrist from the National Defense University Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, juvenile depression patients obey their parents' discipline in childhood. When they reach puberty, they not only communicate with their parents, but they quarrel with their parents everywhere. It usually manifests itself as not tidying up your room, littering your clothes, washing your face slowly, combing your hair slowly, eating slowly, and not completing your homework. The more serious manifestations are truancy, not going home at night, running away from home, having to cut off with parents and so on.

Adolescent depression

Adolescent depression patients are generally younger and do not express emotional problems, but only some physical discomfort. For example, a child often holds his head with his hands and says that he has a headache and dizziness; some cover his chest with his hands and says that he has trouble breathing; some say that there is something in his throat that affects swallowing. Their "disease" seems to be very serious, chronic or recurrent, but after doing a lot of medical examinations, no problems were found. After taking many medicines, the "disease" still showed no signs of improvement.

Depression in adolescence

Many adolescent depression patients feel sad and painful in the face of the goals they have achieved, the ideals they have achieved, and the smooth sailing. Such as being admitted to a prestigious university, but frowning and having a lot of heart, want to retreat. Some of them ran home for no reason during their studies at university and wanted to quit school and drop out.

Bad hints of adolescent depression

It is mainly manifested in two aspects: First, the subconscious layer can cause physiological disorders. For example, as soon as the patient arrives at the school entrance or in the classroom, he feels dizzy, nausea, abdominal pain, weakness, etc. When he leaves this particular environment and returns home, everything is normal again. The other is the consciousness level, which is dedicated to the negative. For example, if you consider yourself to be unsatisfactory in your test scores; if you do not associate with others; if you think that certain practices are a mistake and cause trouble for others; your illness may be "mental illness", what to do if it is really "mental illness", etc.

Adolescent depression maladaptive

There may be some conflicts in the school, or there is no reason at all. The patient is deeply aware of the pressures of the environment. He is often upset and depressed, unable to study at ease, and urgently ask parents to find a way for them to change classes, schools or employer. When he really arrived in a new place, the patient's condition did not improve with it. Instead, he would have other reasons and excuses. He still thought that the environment was unsatisfactory and repeatedly requested changes.

Adolescent depression suicidal behavior

Severe patients commit suicide in various ways. For those who fail to commit suicide, if they only save lives and do not receive antidepressant treatment (including psychotherapy), they will still repeat suicide. Because this type of suicide has psychological and pathological factors and biochemical factors, the patient is not willing to die, but is affected by the disease factor and cannot help himself.

Causes of Adolescent Depression

1. The incidence of adolescent depression is related to genetic factors

The probability of depression in the family is about 8 to 20 times that of the normal population, and the closer the blood is, the higher the probability of occurrence. The survey found that about 71% of adolescent depression has a family history of mental illness or behavior disorder. The first-degree relatives of children and adolescents with depression have a lifetime rate of 20% to 46%. In terms of familial inheritance, the risk factors for childhood depression include: parent-child separation or early deprivation of mother-infant bondage; parents suffer from mental illness; parental abuse or neglect; family history of depression and suicide; some chronic somatic diseases.

2. The incidence of adolescent depression is related to biochemical factors

Such as reduced serotonin (5-HT) function can appear symptoms of depression, enhanced 5-HT function and mania. Pharmacological studies have shown that central norepinephrine (NE) and / or 5-HT and low receptor function are the causes of depression.

3. Early life experience factors

Children with congenital susceptibility are prone to develop emotional disorders after traumatic experiences. Some surveys mentioned that children with depression had three times more mental stimulation than controls. A person's poor life experience in early childhood and childhood can greatly increase the likelihood of depression.

4. Personality defects

Such as passive-aggressive personality, obsessive personality, hysteria personality and so on. Some scholars believe that children with acute depression are usually stubborn, violent, or passive-aggressive personality; chronic depression is characterized by incompetence, passiveness, entanglement, dependence, and loneliness before illness; patients with hidden depression Have compulsive and rickets character. ^[1]

Regulation of adolescent depression

1. For children with adolescent depression, each time they make a wrong idea, record it in time, write a more practical answer, test their wrong ideas from practice, and analyze the problem from multiple perspectives.

2. Parents should teach their children correctly, let children acknowledge that they have adolescent depression, care more about their children, and help their children to eliminate anxiety and increase confidence by establishing their ideals.

3. Receiving more sunlight and exercise has a good effect on patients with depression; more physical activity can make the mood more unexpectedly relaxing; ultraviolet rays in the sun can more or less improve one's mood.

4. Regular and stable life is the most needed for patients with depression. Go to bed early and get up early, keep your body and mind happy, don't fall into the mental vortex of self-imagination, try to learn to be outgoing, and communicate with friends as much as possible.

Adolescent depression dangers

1, cause psychological behavior abnormalities

Adolescents with psychological depression can only endure on their own, which causes great psychological and spiritual pressure, and is trapped, troubled, lonely,

Abnormal psychological behavior Failure to extricate yourself from symptoms such as fear can seriously affect learning and life. At present, some students suffer from mental fatigue, emptiness in life, low psychological endurance, poor social adaptability, lack of professional knowledge, decreased learning efficiency, cold interpersonal relationships and panic, cheating in exams, damage to public property, deformed consumption and other boring phenomena. Violations of discipline, such as smoking, drinking, irritability, and fighting, are good examples.

2. Weaken social adaptability

The psychological pain and torture brought by adolescents' psychological depression to students, sometimes exceeds the physical mental illness, and even affects their lives. Adolescents are generally unwilling to tell their illnesses to others, and gradually develop a closed, introverted, and lonely personality. As a result, their interpersonal communication skills are gradually weakened, which will undoubtedly bring adverse effects on their future social behavior, especially employment .

3. Mental disability and even suicide

Adolescents do not have much resistance themselves, neither the mind nor the brain is fully developed. Long-term adverse states such as depression, loneliness, and low mood will stimulate the injured brain nerves more and more, and eventually cause mental disability. In addition, adolescents 'psychological defense ability is very weak. Depression makes it easy for them to take the road of suicide. Nowadays, frequent high school students' suicide phenomenon can be seen. ^[2]

Prevention of adolescent depression

In daily life, we should listen to some brisk and comfortable music, which can not only give people a beautiful influence and enjoyment, but also make people's spirit effectively relax. Therefore, in addition to intense work and study, people may wish to listen to more music and let beautiful music to relieve mental fatigue.

Laughing, humorous, self-deprecating. When in an embarrassing and embarrassing dilemma, use involuntary jokes or deliberate jokes to make fun of yourself to ridicule yourself to reduce the level of mental tension.

It is also a good way to travel more during holidays, but you should choose more fields and villages away from the hustle and bustle of the city, because the relationship between people and nature is much closer than the relationship between people and cities.

Slowly consciously slow down the pace of life, you can even arrange idle time in the schedule, you must understand that leisure and leisure are not equal to boredom, boredom is meaningless.

Handle all kinds of complicated matters calmly and calmly. Even if you do something wrong, don't blame yourself. Think of everyone making mistakes. This is good for people's psychological balance, and it also helps to soothe people's spirit. pressure.