Adolescent is very upsetting and traditional period when children are developing into adults and many physical, psychological and emotional changes take place in their lives. They undergo a large series of academic, social and family experiences that have great impact of their mood and physical behavior. When these teenagers face rejections on different stages they overreact and their mood swings accordingly as they may feel worse and confused that moment which led to change in their physical and mental behavior. Today teenage depression is increasing an alarming rate which will be surely increase in the coming generations than now.
Increase in Aggression & Depression in 2017
Different researches have been done in order to find out the root causes of increased level of depression in teenagers. As soon as children get into teenage many hormonal and physical changes take place in their bodies, they start getting matured and behave in different way. When they get rejection from friends, family and school they started over thinking and behave aggressively. They may feel sad, do overeating, drinking alcohol, start using inactive drugs, not being able to sleep, feeling tired, hopeless, thinking about suicide, spending time alone on social media or indulge themselves in sexual activities moreover they start hurting themselves in a number of ways to get relieve that will hit their nerves psychologically and their brains leads to certain disorders of depression. According to the stats of National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and World Health organization more than (WHO) more than 17% of adolescents face depression during the period of 12 months and Hispanic and whites are more likely to be its victims. During the past 3 years more than 2.8 million teenagers are likely to have depression.
There are a number of ways to overcome this disorder with the help of antidepressants, mutual guidance, care, talk and regular medical checkups but all disorders appear in different forms, nobody can clearly justify or guess that either a child is suffering from depression as every disorder functions and effects in different way. Therefore there is need to think on this issue and try to cope up with this serious matter as soon as possible to stop the future generations being affected by it.
Depression Ratio among Females
According to the research adolescent girls are likely to have depression more than boys because of the stereotype thinking of considering them inferior to boys since their childhood in their families as well as in societies and are being bullied and harassed by everyone. Here i want to highlight that why girls are being treated inhumanely and are more likely to have high level of depression than boys in world because the negative and stereotype thinking of families play major role in their mental health. Since childhood girls are being considered inferior to their brothers in families and after marriage to their husbands and in laws and suffer from postpartum depression after the birth of their babies as they are treated like slaves in this patriarchal society.
Main Causes of Depression
Depression is not only caused by emotional, physical, environmental, biological or mental changes sometimes it is hereditary that pass on from one generation to another in families. Although depression is serious problem that need an appropriate treatment but teenage depression is difficult to diagnose as many adults expect teenagers to be moody and aggressive. Sometimes adolescents themselves are not aware of the symptoms of depression and they don’t seek help.
Although married and working life is more busy and restless than teenage life then why youth think that suicide is the alternate solution to their problems? Or they are just born to just to end up their lives uselessly without doing anything in world. It all depends on their relationships with family that how much time they spent at home and share about themselves with parents. Because teenagers themselves are so much indulge in social media and technology that they hesitate to share their problems with parents and try to find the solutions of life on internet.
When Does Depression Take a Life of Human being?
If depression is not treated on time it becomes life threatening therefore depending upon the situation of children, parents should take medications or seek professional advice on time and let their depressed children for therapies before the critical time comes when their children simply refuse for treatment and their recovery become fatal . Cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychotherapy, interpersonal therapy and antidepressants should be given to adolescents to be treated on time. Depression has become a life threatening cause that every year more than 5000 teenagers end their lives by doing suicides because they failed to find the solutions of their problems and feel themselves quite miserable, alone and hopeless inside.
Seek Help From Professional
I want to say that if professional help and advices should be taken on time then there will be chances to stop and cope up with teenage depression and parents can play major role in doing so as they are well aware of their children and they know well how to bring them back on track properly and can bring them a hope of better life in future. If every parent try to spend just little time with their children daily and have professional talk with them along with sensible advices then there is hope to overcome depression soon and if the stereotype thinking of our patriarchal society should be modernize than the suicidal rate of teenage girls in world should become limited in coming years. So it all depends on the thinking of our society and families that how to stop this alarming threat rather than shedding tears later on or seeking help to others.
