Childhood Depression
CHILDHOOD DEPRESSION
Although you may not believe the children also become depressed, and we are seeing increasingly younger ages and cases. The combination of genetic predisposition to a number of risk factors such as parental divorce, or the bad environment at school, or the existence of persistent conflict, and physical or sexual abuse are some of the situations that create mental health danger of a child.
We have always believed erroneously that childhood is a time beautiful, wonderful, no conflicts, no problems, no penalties, but not so.
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LOSSES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
The development and growth also, inevitably, losses and gains. The birth of a sibling, parental separation, divorce, changes of address, changes of school and other everyday situations involving a psychic work, and are the feelings of sadness, decay and fragility.
The passage of time and subtle own limitations posed duels that leave their traces and try to solve the child has an arsenal that combines self-assessment, recognition and the image returns to life itself. When this arsenal is very poor, there is a deficit that is a proper climate for the presentation of depression.
The oft-mentioned inferiority complex reveals the dissatisfaction of one’s gaze upon him, as hints or experiences power still depressed.
For us as parents, besides impotence, misleads us about what to do, or doing or when or when not to do and how can I tell if my child is depressed?