1. Depression and Adolescents
Depression, or major depressive disorder, is a mood disorder characterized by sadness, inactivity, mental instability, and feeling of hopelessness. ... Adolescents who believe they are at fault for an event are at the highest risk for depressive disorder. ... Depression in adolescents is a major risk factor for suicide, the second-to-third leading cause of death in this age group; more than half of adolescent suicide victims reported to have a depressive disorder at the time of death (Thapar, 2012). ... These symptoms, and many others, could be the cause of a primary or secondary depressive mo...
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