Interviewed 750 people aged between 14 and 16 years and then again between 20 and 30. They showed that anxiety, severe depression and eating disorders were more present in those who had suffered from mild depression teenage (8% of total), as stated in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Result
The reason remains to be clarified with further research, but the thing is certain: around 20-30 years, the study subjects who were moderately depressed as adolescents showed a four times higher than normal risk of suffering from severe depression. The risk was two and a half time higher to meet with agoraphobia, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder and three times higher than fall nell'anoressia or bulimia.
For depression "slight" the researchers mean a milder than clinical depression, but it lasts at least two weeks and includes symptoms such as feeling down, loosing interest in their activities, have been troubling sleeping and unable to concentrate. Research coordinator, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, who now claims will require further studies to see if the problems of depressed teenagers are at an early stage of subsequent depression more serious or if they contribute to the development of more severe mental illness in later years. But what can already be inferred and that even mild signs of depression as teenagers should not be overlooked: the boys should be helped and immediately initiated an effective treatment.
Disease
Depression is a mood disorder characterized by a set of symptoms of cognitive status, behavioral, somatic and affective, which together diminish the mood, compromising the "operation" of a person, as well as its ability to adapt to life social. Depression is not so, as often believed, a simple lowering of mood, but a set of symptoms more or less complex that also substantially alter the way a person thinks, thinks and portrays herself, others and the outside world.
Depression is sometimes associated with suicidal ideation or self-destructive type, and almost always is accompanied by deficits in attention and concentration, insomnia, eating disorders, extreme physical exhaustion and unmotivated.
The main symptoms:
1. Depressed mood almost daily, as reported by the subject or observed by others.
2. Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day (anhedonia).
3. Significant weight loss without dieting, or significant weight gain, or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day.
4. Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day.
5. Agitation or retardation nearly every day.
6. Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate feelings of guilt nearly every day.
8. Decreased ability to think or concentrate, or difficulty making decisions almost every day.
9. Recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without elaboration of specific plans, or a suicide attempt or by elaborating a specific plan for committing suicide.
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