subject: Early Detection Of Depression May Save A Child From Lifetime Social And Emotional Consequences [print this page] Washington University School of Medicine conducted a longitudinal study about the increasing number of depressed children. The ratio of Major Depression Disorder (MDD) in preschool children is already the same among school-aged children as stated in the study. Antidepressant medication will be given to Preschool children once diagnosed. Probiotic bacteria is believed to help improve the symptoms of Anxiety and Depression as stated in a new study.
Family history of depression triggers depression among school-aged children as stated in the longitudinal study conducted by Dr. Luby and her colleagues.
Chidhood depression can be rooted from genetics, depressed mother and as well from stressful or traumatic events.
The symptoms of depression in pre-schoolers were usually taken for granted and remained untreated believing its just a normal emotional psychological change while growing up. Depression among pre-schoolers is often undiagnosed, untreated because it is always associated as a normal emotional and psychological changes occurs while growing up.When a child get depressed, they used the masked depression where a childs depressed moon was proven by acting out or angry behaviour. There are several symptoms of depression such as mood changes, sadness and feeling of hopelessness.
Jennifer Gibson, a brain blogger, wrote about how young is too young being diagnosed and stated that any parent can attest that the terrible 2s as observed from the said children are their being moody and temperamental during their toddler stage.
Gibson also mentioned in her article that a new study funded by the United States National Institute of Mental Health and published in Archives of General Psychiatry showed evidence that depression in preschool-aged children can be a chronic condition and should be given out most attention by the parents.
However, despite the investigation, no evidence has shown that depressed pre-schoolers show developmental delays and that treating depression among young children could be controversial, though there were already increasing number of young children being prescribed powerful psychiatric medications.
Many antidepressant medications such as Zoloft contain warnings for adolescent considering the said drug had not been carefully examined as prescription for pre-schoolers and that most experts support psychotherapy as a first-line treatment in children.
Nevertheless, there is a need for parents, teachers, and caregivers to be educated about a childs emotional development.
The early intervention can prevent depression among children and they will not experience the several side effects of Zoloft which can cause Zoloft birth defects in women.
by: Angelena E. Mays
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