Depressed?
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Yes there are medications for adolescents who suffer from depression! There are many different types of depression, some clinical and long lasting, some are situational others may be a chemical imbalance. If you are depressed and heve ever considered harming or killing yourself, please get help or talk to an adult that you trust right away! My 20 year old son died from suicide 3 years ago.One of the biggest mistakes that people make is stopping their anti-depressant medication when they start to feel better, but the medicine is what makes them feel better. Always remember that suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary problem! PLEASE talk to someone right away! Good luck and God bless you!
Well for starters, you need to discover what your depressed about, and try to change the situation. If your not able to pin point the situation, you may want to talk about it with a person you trust or maybe even write in a journal. If you feel alittle more depressed about life in general you may want to go to a counselor and talk about the problems. There are allot of depression pills out there, Talk to your doctor about it even with your parents. Make sure that you ask about side effects with the pills, if you decide to go that way. Some pills have side effects on teens that can make them even more depressed or suicidal if they stop taking them once they start.
I wish you the best luck.
I have been on depression pills for the last 5 years and they work really well for me.
Most teenagers suffering from depression is not due to "mental" problems, but rather because of a Nutritional Disorder.
Most people seem to think that depression is always "in the mind", but if you have a physical illness that prevents you from producing feel good neurotransmitters such as serotonin, you can be depressed without knowing why.
Of course when we feel down it is natural to blame something in the environment or in the past, but this would simply be what psychologists call "projection".
Most depressions have a biological basis and it has been found that many depressed people have hypoglycemia. This is a nutritional disorder caused by excess sugar consumption.
When we consume too much sugar over a long period of time, we may develop "insulin resistance". This means that the body is not properly metabolizing sugar into biological energy, that the brain needs to manufacture the feel good neurotransmitters.
Hence we become depressed.
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