What are the symptoms of depression in teenage girls

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Help a teenage girl with depression?

Q: Hey guys, I’ve been having a rough time and I would really appreciate it if some of you could help me.I’m sixteen years old and I’ve had depression for about the past year and a half, but it’s just started getting bad since I started my junior year in early September. I’ve looked up symptoms online and I realized I’ve been showing a lot of them, for example:- long periods of depression- talking more often about death- thoughts of suicide- constantly thinking about the end of the world- sudden fits of rage (often over small things)- fatigue/headaches- becoming distant from my friendsI keep telling myself to hold on for just two more years, because then I could go to college on the opposite side of the country, be surrounded by new people, do everything differently, and be happy again. But deep down I know that a new environment won’t make these feelings go away because they have nothing to do with my environment, they’re from inside of me and they’re going to follow me where ever I go. This is why I know I need help. I’ve already lost my friends and my social life. I’m afraid to talk to my parents because I’m afraid they’ll be disappointed in me. I’m afraid they’ll only think of the happy, vivacious, alive people I see everyday and wonder the same thing I do: why can’t I be like them? If any of you just sympathize with me, tell me how you got help or let me know I’m not alone, I would feel so grateful.

A: I am a mom of a young lady who had the same problems as you. I never guessed she had depression. She eventually wrote a letter and I went to clean her room and found it. It had poured out all of her feelings and made me very sad and hurt that she didn’t talk to me about it. I spoke to her later that day and let her know that I would get her help. We went to a counselor and a psychiatrist where she was diagnosed with low self esteem, ADD, and borderline depression. With some counseling and some prescribed drugs, she is now employed full time, is soooooooooooo much happier, and is able to focus on one task at a time. Talk to your mom. The only disappointment will be her own that she can’t help you or that she didn’t see your sadness. Good luck to you and I wish you the very best. One day at a time and you will get there, I promise.

Do you suffer from depression? If so maybe you will find this short article of interest?

Q: The Evolutionary Origin of Depression Mild and BitterJun 25th 2009From The Economist print editionDepression may be linked to how willing someone is to give up his goalsCLINICAL depression is a serious ailment, but almost everyone gets mildly depressed from time to time. Randolph Nesse, a psychologist and researcher in evolutionary medicine at the University of Michigan, likens the relationship between mild and clinical depression to the one between normal and chronic pain. He sees both pain and low mood as warning mechanisms and thinks that, just as understanding chronic pain means first understanding normal pain, so understanding clinical depression means understanding mild depression.Dr Nesse’s hypothesis is that, as pain stops you doing damaging physical things, so low mood stops you doing damaging mental ones—in particular, pursuing unreachable goals. Pursuing such goals is a waste of energy and resources. Therefore, he argues, there is likely to be an evolved mechanism that identifies certain goals as unattainable and inhibits their pursuit—and he believes that low mood is at least part of that mechanism. It is a neat hypothesis, but is it true? A study published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests it might be. Carsten Wrosch from Concordia University in Montreal and Gregory Miller of the University of British Columbia studied depression in teenage girls. They measured the “goal adjustment capacities” of 97 girls aged 15-19 over the course of 19 months. They asked the participants questions about their ability to disengage from unattainable goals and to re-engage with new goals. They also asked about a range of symptoms associated with depression, and tracked how these changed over the course of the study. Their conclusion was that those who experienced mild depressive symptoms could, indeed, disengage more easily from unreachable goals. That supports Dr Nesse’s hypothesis. But the new study also found a remarkable corollary: those women who could disengage from the unattainable proved less likely to suffer more serious depression in the long run. Mild depressive symptoms can therefore be seen as a natural part of dealing with failure in young adulthood. They set in when a goal is identified as unreachable and lead to a decline in motivation. In this period of low motivation, energy is saved and new goals can be found. If this mechanism does not function properly, though, severe depression can be the consequence. The importance of giving up inappropriate goals has already been demonstrated by Dr Wrosch. Two years ago he and his colleagues published a study in which they showed that those teenagers who were better at doing so had a lower concentration of C-reactive protein, a substance made in response to inflammation and associated with an elevated risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Dr Wrosch thus concludes that it is healthy to give up overly ambitious goals. Persistence, though necessary for success and considered a virtue by many, can also have a negative impact on health. Dr Nesse believes that persistence is a reason for the exceptional level of clinical depression in America—the country that has the highest depression rate in the world. “Persistence is part of the American way of life,” he says. “People here are often driven to pursue overly ambitious goals, which then can lead to depression.” He admits that this is still an unproven hypothesis, but it is one worth considering. Depression may turn out to be an inevitable price of living in a dynamic society.http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13899022Jim

A: That is very interesting.