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Title: Depression
Post by: LaKecias on October 16, 2018, 08:58:38 am
How do you deal with emotional problems and or depression with your teens.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: hkckk5 on October 16, 2018, 10:00:48 am
My children are grown now but i do have teen granddaughters. One of them seem to be depressed and her mother took her to a doctor. They decided to put the teen on a low dose medication. It seem to have helped her.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: kimber62372 on October 16, 2018, 10:50:52 am
I am not one to run to medication for anything. Even when I was depressed my doctor prescribed xanex and another drug that I am not familiar with. Everyone has the capability to get themselves out of the funk. Medication is not the answer. Counseling and someone to confide is are great components.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: ajamimajida on October 16, 2018, 03:37:17 pm
my 28 year old daughter took her own life last year.  She had severe depression but refused to get help for it.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: ancmetro on October 16, 2018, 08:17:25 pm

    The transition from childhood to adulthood is difficult.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: annadote on October 16, 2018, 08:38:39 pm
I'm not a parent, but I was a teen with depression issues. The only thing I have to offer is to take their feelings seriously. Don't tell them that they can just choose to be happy or feel better. Take what they say seriously please.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: sdenimandlace1 on October 17, 2018, 04:46:37 am
Depression is hard.  There are a lot of ways to work through it.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: froggylover227 on October 17, 2018, 04:54:18 pm
I don't have a teenager, but I myself suffer from postpartum depression and anxiety. It can be hard. Sometimes I feel like nobody understands me, and I think that contributes to the depression and anxiety. So try to relate to the teen, and try to get them to understand that you understand, even if you really don't. Also, for the longest time, I was dead against medicines. But it got so bad for me, that I caved and just decided to give some medicine a try. I definitely feel like they have helped me. I'm not saying they are a cure-all, but they sure took the edge off and relieved some of the tension. There is nothing wrong with needing medicine to help, so if the teen does need medicine, do not make them feel as if it is a bad thing. Let them know it is there to help them. Overall, I would say that support is the best thing a person can provide to another person who is suffering from depression and/or anxiety.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: Mizzkizz7 on October 17, 2018, 05:38:41 pm
My son is 19 yrs but never really displayed depression, but anxiety. The only med he's ever taken was for ADHD. I myself suffer from major depression and anxiety. The best thing to do is to get your teen into therapy to figure out what the issue is and in turn he will be prescribed medication. It helps a lot.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: michele2042 on October 17, 2018, 05:40:16 pm
I am not one to run to medication for anything. Even when I was depressed my doctor prescribed xanex and another drug that I am not familiar with. Everyone has the capability to get themselves out of the funk. Medication is not the answer. Counseling and someone to confide is are great components.

With all due respect, Medication may not have been the answer for you but to think that "everyone has the capability to get themselves out of the funk" is reckless.   Yes, if it's simply a 'funk" most of us can get ourselves out of it with help from friends or family but there are cases of depression that require medication.   There can be times of a chemical imbalance in the brain.  I also am not one to run to medications and I believe for the most part drugs are over prescribed but to think everyone can get themselves out of it is dangerous.   That kind of thinking can send a depressed person deeper into despair because someone told them to just get over it.   
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: Cbsteffen on October 17, 2018, 09:52:51 pm
I think you should also ask, “How would you deal with emotional problems if you had teens?” for those who don’t watch over teens but still want to imagine doing so. If I were to even have kids and had to help them with losing a temper, I would share with them my membership with a site called HAPPYneuron and see if they would like a membership if they got to be old enough to try it. The games meant to strengthen reasoning have helped me hide my temper.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: countrygirl12 on October 19, 2018, 09:55:44 am

    The transition from childhood to adulthood is difficult.

No it isn't.  If kids were not so coddled and taught the world revolves around them and they get trophies for everything just for showing up and that nobody can tell you no - life would be easier.  Kids get a real slap in the face when they get to adult hood and find out the world is not a bed of cotton candy and roses.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: debidoo on October 19, 2018, 10:23:35 am
I have grown sons two of them and like their dad both suffer from depression. It hurts me to see and I see it with my older son on an almost daily basis because he lives with me.  He refuses to consider medication but the younger son went to the dr and got some low dose medication.  Now that I am older, have severe mobility issues and my husband died I too am suffering from it so I guess it is over my whole family.  I just pray a lot.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: camellia0 on October 20, 2018, 03:51:23 am
You need to seek help for them. I worked for a county office dealing with school-aged children and depression. The kids may not want to participate in programs but as the parent or concerned love one, you have to go to agencies to seek help for the child and yourself. It is tough but be involved in the child, don't be like 'this is a phase, they will get over it'. There are programs out there.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: haimsterette on October 31, 2018, 08:37:54 pm
my 28 year old daughter took her own life last year.  She had severe depression but refused to get help for it.

I am so sorry. I imagine that is one of the most difficult things to endure in life.

For depression in teens... I was extremely, paralyzingly depressed as a teen. Medication didn't help. A couple years ago I started taking a few different herbal supplements for depression/anxiety and it worked VERY well. Besides that, trying to force myself to get out of the house more; keeping busy; letting my feelings out in a journal; finding something I enjoy to do in my free time. All that really benefited me. I think it could be of use to teens as well. :)
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: clickers on October 31, 2018, 08:46:08 pm
my 28 year old daughter took her own life last year.  She had severe depression but refused to get help for it.
I'm so saddened to hear that ajamimajida.  My daughter is seeking help through counselor and lose dose meds.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: Rahmanh on October 31, 2018, 11:42:21 pm
By talking to people about it and get help from doctor.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: mrisha on November 04, 2018, 05:32:42 pm
Teens are God's way of saying "KARMA". If you can get through those teen years, you can do anything. 
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: dreamyxo on November 04, 2018, 09:18:33 pm
Make sure they are eating healthy.  I just saw this article today.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-food-that-helps-battle-depression-1522678367?mod=djmc_pkt_ff&tier_1=21128300&tier_2=dcm&tier_3=21128300&tier_4=0&tier_5=4508749



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You’re feeling depressed. What have you been eating?

Psychiatrists and therapists don’t often ask this question. But a growing body of research over the past decade shows that a healthy diet—high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish and unprocessed lean red meat—can prevent depression. And an unhealthy diet—high in processed and refined foods—increases the risk for the disease in everyone, including children and teens.

Now recent studies show that a healthy diet may not only prevent depression, but could effectively treat it once it’s started.

Researchers, led by epidemiologist Felice Jacka of Australia’s Deakin University, looked at whether improving the diets of people with major depression would help improve their mood. They chose 67 people with depression for the study, some of whom were already being treated with antidepressants, some with psychotherapy, and some with both. Half of these people were given nutritional counseling from a dietitian, who helped them eat healthier. Half were given one-on-one social support—they were paired with someone to chat or play cards with—which is known to help people with depression.
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After 12 weeks, the people who improved their diets showed significantly happier moods than those who received social support. And the people who improved their diets the most improved the most. The study was published in January 2017 in BMC Medicine. A second, larger study drew similar conclusions and showed that the boost in mood lasted six months. It was led by researchers at the University of South Australia and published in December 2017 in Nutritional Neuroscience.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: braggin on November 05, 2018, 04:42:42 am
My daughter seemed to be struggling emotionally when she was a teen so I made an appt. for her with a psychologist. There were no drugs involved - the psychologist was just somebody she could talk about her feelings with and it seemed to help her a lot. There were things she just didn't want to talk to her mom or sister about.
Title: Re: Depression
Post by: nannycoe1 on November 05, 2018, 04:48:52 am
Teenage years are harder now than they were when me or my children were teenagers. I have grandchildren who are teenagers now and things are so different. I worry about them all the time.