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It Was More Than Teen Angst

Submitted by Cinda on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 12:00am
  • Depression affects students of all academic levels, social positions and economic statuses.
  • Depression in children and teenagers has devastating impact on the crucial stages of social, emotional and cognitive development, with far-reaching and negative impact on these young lives.
  • One in five young people have some sort of mental health condition; one in eight has a serious depression.

Despite these daunting statistics, a mere 30% of these students receive any sort of intervention or treatment. The other 70% simply struggle through the pain, doing their best to make it to adulthood. If this were the case with child and adolescent cancer there would be an outcry from the public.

I know these statistics well. I know that educators have a unique opportunity to recognize and support students struggling with depression yet often are either unaware or simply aren’t sure of the severity or need for intervention and therefore do nothing. Parents may well be in the same camp. Is it “teenage angst”? Growing pains? Typical of a child who may be in the middle of a family crisis? A young person having problems with friends, feeling left out or deserted?

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Teens Disproportionately Affected by Mental Disorders

October 4, 2010

The percentage of youth suffering from a mental disorder is even greater than the most frequent major physical conditions in adolescence, including diabetes or asthma.

About 20 percent of youth in the U.S. are affected by at least one type of mental disorder during their lifetime to an extent that they have difficulty functioning, according to a new National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) survey. 

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Bipolar Disorder Misdiagnosed in Adults. Nationwide Study Presented at APA

July 30, 2002

Results of a new nationwide study show that three times as many people may suffer from bipolar disorder (also known as manic-depression) than previously estimated. Survey results from more than 85,000 Americans found that approximately one-third of those who screened positive for bipolar disorder had been misdiagnosed as having unipolar depression. The data were presented at the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) annual scientific meeting.

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