Adolescent depression is one of the common diseases among teenagers. Adolescent depression will affect their physical and mental growth to a certain extent. Therefore, the treatment of adolescent depression must be timely and thorough. As parents, they should be more careful in the daily care of adolescent depression patients. So, do you know what causes adolescent depression? What will it do?
Causes of adolescent depression
1. Physical diseases. People spend their whole life fighting with disease, life and work. Sometimes some diseases will bring some negative effects to people, make people have negative emotions, and lead to depression.
2. It is related to genetic factors. The probability of children with depression in the family is 8 ~ 20 times that of the normal population, and the closer the blood relationship, the higher the probability of disease. The survey found that about 71% of adolescent depression have a family history of psychosis or behavior disorders. The first-degree relatives of depressed children and adolescents suffer from the disease for life in 20% ~ 46%. In terms of family heredity, the risk factors leading to child depression include: parent-child separation or early mother infant connection deprivation; Parents suffering from mental illness; Abuse or neglect of children by parents; Family history of depression and suicide; Some chronic somatic genetic diseases.
3. Defects in character. Sometimes depression is caused by one's own personality. For example, if one is unwilling to communicate with others when encountering some things, one can fight alone, which is particularly lonely. Often, this lonely personality will make people stay away from the group and do not communicate with others, which will lead to psychological problems over time.
4. Early life experience. Having no happy childhood, he understood some things very early and lost a childlike innocence. The early life experience of a child will affect his life, in other words, it will have a great impact on his later life.
The manifestation of depression in adolescence
1. Depressed
Many adolescent patients with depression feel sad and painful instead of happy in the face of their goals, ideals and smooth roads. If you are admitted to a famous university, but you are worried and want to retreat. Some students often run home for no reason during their college study and want to drop out of school.
2. Bad suggestion
It is mainly manifested in two aspects: one is the of the subconscious layer, which will lead to physiological disorders. For example, as soon as the patient arrives at the school gate and classroom, he feels dizziness, nausea, abdominal pain and limb weakness. When he leaves this specific environment and returns home, everything is normal again. The other is in the conscious level, which focuses on negative speculation. If the examination result is not ideal; He will not associate with others; Think that some practices are a mistake and cause trouble to others; Your illness may be "psychosis", but what if it is really "psychosis".
3. Maladjustment
There may have been some contradictions in school, or there is no reason at all. The patients feel the heavy pressure of their environment, often upset, depressed and unable to study at ease. They urgently ask their parents to find ways to change their classes, schools or work units. When we really arrive at a new place, the patient's state does not improve with it. On the contrary, there will be other reasons and excuses. We still think that the environment is unsatisfactory and repeatedly ask for change.
4. Suicidal behavior
Severe patients commit suicide in various ways. For those who fail to commit suicide, if they only save their lives and do not receive antidepressant treatment (including psychotherapy), the patient will still commit suicide again. Because this kind of suicide has psychopathological and biochemical factors, patients are not willing to die, but are influenced by disease factors and can't help themselves.