You know when you don't feel like yourself. If you're suffering from depression, it's likely you're feeling varying degrees of exhaustion, worthlessness, helplessness, and/or hopelessness. When such negative thoughts and feelings persist, some...
When you think about someone being diagnosed with depression, a young child or teenager might not come first to mind--and yet, as many as one in 8 teens and one in 33 children suffer with clinical depression. Depression is more than just "feeling...
Early intervention to help children and adolescents who have suffered trauma from violence or a disaster is critical. Parents, teachers and mental health professionals can do a great deal to help these youngsters recover. Help should begin at the...
A just-released report from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) finds more than 13 percent of young Americans between 14 and 17 years of age considered suicide in 2000--and only 36 percent of them had received...
Depression is a serious disorder that causes significant problems at home, in school, and with peers. It increases a child's vulnerability to substance abuse, and puts them at risk for suicidal behaviors. Previous research has shown that depression...
For children ages 5 to 14, suicide rates from 1996 to 1998 were lower in areas of the country with higher rates of antidepressant prescriptions, according to an NIMH-funded study published in the November 2006 issue of the American Journal of...