Clinical Teenage Depression
...ed by stress, medication, or other medical illnesses. Certain personality traits and genetic factors can also contribute to depression. Did you know that there are approximately seven million female teens with CD and thirty percent of the male teens in the US? Now, for each sex, the conditions vary. Where as a majority of the females are sad during CD, males are angry. Also women are more affected by this atrocity. The reason that these women are at greater risk is most likely due to: hormonal changes of menstruation; postpartum; and menopause – as well as from the stresses of school and social roles. For whatever reason though, young men’s symptoms of CD may be misleading, because they don’t often involve feeling sad or crying. It is common for male CD to first show up in physical symptoms, such as headaches, gastrointestinal distress, and sexual dysfunction. Other symptoms are: irritability; anger; lashing out; substance abuse; inability to perform at school; and interrupted sleeping patterns. Also, in most cases, a male will deny being diagnosed with CD. If you are the parent of a teen with CD, there is help. First if you are showing common signs of CD (mentioned earlier), call your doctor. Secondly, you will be given information on a therapist you should meet with. Finally, If diagnosed with CD, you will most likely be given medication and therapy. This may seem difficult, but trust the therapists and professionals, it will help you to be free of CD. This is for the better of y...