Depression In Children

An average of 600 children with depression year attends all Peru, one third of which are severe boxes which are ideas suicide and attempted suicide, according to statistics provided by the head of mental health service.

Specialists indicate that in recent years has been an increase of depression in children, also in these cases of child depression care daily registering consultation of two or three children with this disease depression.

The symptoms presented the children with depression are profound sadness, sleep disorder or insomnia, lack of appetite, mood and energy addition of problems in school performance, thought suicidal, aggressiveness and auto aggressiveness.

The main causes of depression in children are child abuse in its various types (physical, psychological, sexual abuse and neglect). Family and hereditary factors linked to domestic violence can also be observed.

Also involved social factors linked to extreme poverty, which generates low self-esteem and demonstrates the low presence of parents in raising the children, separation from parents, alcoholism and drug addiction in parents.

In most cases parents bring their children to consult after several months, because in general do not detect risk in children and adolescents, therefore it is necessary to pay attention to school performance that is a good indicator of the mental balance as well as social relations with parents.

The increased frequency of depression in children is in school, age, where suicide risk increases from 8 years and adolescence. But these cases of depression will heighten when delivery of final notes and school year is ending.

Depression in children when it is not cured can become chronic. When the child grows, his role models become more severe and less flexible, and it is difficult to change their thinking negative and tragic. When the child speculates that you cannot make anything good, does not display the self-confidence.

When the child has no confidence goes by slowly locking, and ends in solitude without friends. The child has self-esteem low and joined the little confidence in itself same causes that his depression can deteriorate, and the child develops thoughts suicide.

Experts emphasize that antidepressant treatment is economic and the most effective, which should be administered at least for half a year, but also various psychological therapies are needed to combat her depression in children.




 

   

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