Can a child get depression Why do children get depression?

Yes. If the child is too precocious. If there was a bad shadow in childhood.

Then it is likely to lead to autism. Severe autism is self-isolation in one's own world. You don't know what he thinks every day.

He may not be interested in what is going on around him. Few friends or no one to talk to. After a long time, it will be the same as an adult.

Depression. Don't underestimate the problems of small children. They need the right guidance from their parents.

And lots and lots of care and love.

Yes. Now children and adults are about the same. Matures early.

Some time ago, the news of a fifteen-year-old girl jumping off a building and killing her father set off a lot of discussions on the Internet. According to the girl's family: the girl suffers from depression and has been hospitalized before**, and this time it may be that she has suffered from depression again.

In the first half of the year, parents found that the girl had self-harmed, with scratches on her arms, and even said to her parents that she "didn't want to live anymore". But no matter what the parents asked, the girl refused to say a word more.

After going to the hospital**, I thought that the girl's condition had improved, and she also offered to learn piano, but who would have thought that she would suddenly commit suicide.

While it is sad and regrettable, advocating for children's mental health has become an inevitable topic. For adults, they always have disdain for children's negative emotions, and always feel that "how old are children, and they are unhappy because they are idle, if they study hard, how can they have so many troubles?" It is precisely because of this psychology that it leads to ignoring the negative emotions of the child and leaving the child alone to resist the pain.

In the eyes of many parents, depression is "made", and this lack of understanding will aggravate the child's depression. When the child has the following abnormal behaviors, parents should be extra vigilant, but the child is depressed and is sending you a distress signal:

1.Changes in sleep habits. For example, long-term insomnia and difficulty falling asleep;

2.I have no interest in everything and find it boring, including things I used to enjoy;

3.I don't like to socialize with people, and deliberately avoid socializing with relatives and friends;

4.It is difficult to concentrate and have a muddy appearance;

5.decreased appetite;

6.Lack of self-confidence, pessimistic and negative;

7.Abnormal performance at school;

8.doesn't like to talk cautiously, the whole person is silent, and looks sad;

9.a sense of worthlessness;

10.Self-injurious behavior. When the child has these behaviors, parents can not simply classify the child as "in a bad mood", but should pay attention to it, pay attention to the child's heart, melt the child's hard shell with companionship and understanding, and if necessary, go to the hospital to seek professional **.

Because depression is a disease, and if you are sick, you have to see a doctor, and parents should understand that the child is not deliberately unhappy, he is just sick. In recent years, the suicide rate among adolescents has been rising, and the age of teenagers is getting younger and younger, which has a lot to do with the family environment. Because now that the competition is getting bigger and bigger, the pressure on parents on their children is also increasing, and if they don't pay attention to mental health, it is easy for children to go to extremes.

The most precious thing that a family gives to a child is love and warmth, so that the child clearly knows that he is being understood and tolerated, and this power can help him to fight negative emotions. If the family can't give the child this, it is easy for him to have psychological problems. Parents give their children more love and care, and pay attention to their children's physical and mental health, so that they are more likely to grow into strong trees.

Nowadays, teenagers are under too much pressure to study, parents have too high expectations, every parent wants their children to win at the starting line, and now there are more and more only children, fewer and fewer friends, and less and less communication, and teenagers are not yet emotionally mature to deal with problems, which leads to depression in children.

Not long ago, an article "The Antidepressant History of a College Entrance Examination Champion" went viral on the Internet.

This author is a student at Peking University - You An.

Like many students facing the college entrance examination, You An experienced a very stressful period before being admitted to Peking University.

You An has a very strict mother, and the requirements for her can be said to be harsh.

After taking the eighteenth grade, he was required to get up at six o'clock every day during the holidays to study.

Do not accept any failures of You An, and do not allow You An to participate in any blocking activities other than learning Jane, and suppression and denial are also commonplace.

Under such high pressure, she was finally admitted to Peking University.

As the top student in the liberal arts college entrance examination that year, she thought that her life had entered a new stage, but she didn't know that the moment she stepped into the school, her worldview was also collapsing little by little.

The classmates around me, everyone has read a lot of books, participated in various interesting activities, they have different interests and hobbies, their high school life is interesting and fulfilling, and in their memories, except for the bitterness of reading, there is no conversation with other people.

I have been exposed to a lot of adolescent children.

Some of them were depressed and refused to go to school because of the ridicule of their classmates

Some people think that school is boring, so they spend all day with games;

Smoking, drinking, fighting, running away from home.

Depression, Internet addiction, and school boredom have become the most prominent emotional and behavioral problems among adolescents.

But many parents still don't realize that depression is really not far away.

According to the 2018 China Psychological Counseling Industry Report, there are nearly 80 million people with depression in China, of which 30%-40% are teenagers, and the number is still increasing.

These children, who already have symptoms, are ignored by their parents and perceived as hypocritical.

My friend Mu Mu is such a mother.

Mu Mu's child is 13 years old and has just entered the first year of junior high school.

The child excelled in learning from an early age, but after being severely criticized by her parents and teachers because of a failed exam, she was not so attentive to learning.