Depression

EFFECTS OF DEPRESSION IN ADOLESCENCE In recent years, depression has been a major topic in the news and media and its effect on individuals. Depression therefore is a serious condition that affects the human brain in such a way that it affects the thoughts and intentions of many. Adolescent depression is often overlooked because they have a hard time expressing their feelings which leads to serious complications in most teenagers because they have a hard time dealing with school work and mates. Parents and teachers have a responsibility of identifying odd behaviors of teenagers and getting the needed help. Throughout the nation and our world people are suffering from this disease. Depression affects people of genders, all ages, and any background. Some believe that teens never go through any form of severe depression. People experience it in one form or the other which is normally called ‘passing blue moods’. It however becomes a mental condition when it ceases to become adaptive and pose a threat to lives. It affects not only the person with the condition but also the people around them. There is no known cause of depression the effects can have a dilapidating threat on the individual. The effects of depression can be fatal if ignored and can cause prolong dangers. A number of studies point to effects of the biological developments of puberty as having an important place in these changes. From a developmental point of view, the fact that the hormonal and physical changes of puberty differ in boys and girls, mean that a “biological explanation” fits in well with the gender differentiation in rates of depression across puberty. In a sample of 3,519 8–16-year-old psychiatric patients, both boys and girls shared increasing levels of depression across this age range, but the rate of increase was faster in girls. There was no difference in the rates of depression between boys and girls before the age of 11, but by the age of 16 girls were twice as likely as