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Depression
in the Young
What We Can Do to Help
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Why are we so
blind to childhood depression ?
Depression in children
does not always look like depression in adults.
If we use only the
list of adult symptoms,
we will miss the vast majority of children and adolescents
suffering from depression.
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- Based on the wrenching
and unexpected suicide death of her son, Ben, at age fourteen,
Minnesota author and lecturer Trudy Carlson discusses depressive
illness in young people and explains aspects of available treatments
for each.
by Trudy Carlson
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Paperback
ISBN:
0964244357
Author's Site
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- Well organized, thoroughly researched,
and conversationally written, Carlson's frank, explicit guide
through illness, treatment, medication, and psychotherapies is
designed with the layman in mind.
- Based on personal experience chronicled
in the second half of her earlier work, THE SUICIDE OF MY SON,
Carlson's latest book contains detailed chapters dedicated to
the recognition and treatment of depressive illness in the young,
as well as their effects on the family, friends, classmates,
and physicians involved with the sufferer.
- Direct and personal, written from
the heart of someone who has been there, Carlson's forthright
book is recommended reading as a helpful, hopeful guide through
the traumatic maze of childhood depression and treatment.
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Excerpt
Why are we so blind
to childhood depression? McKnew, Cytryn and Yahraes (1983) give
us their opinion:
Perhaps the biggest reason
is that many depressed children are often the 'nicest' boys and
girls on the block and the best behaved kids in school.
Go into a classroom and you'll
find that the kids in the back rows are the quiet ones, the ones
that don't give anyone any trouble, though we know now that many
of them are depressed . . . Unless you know a depressed child
quite well and are really looking for signs of depression, you
probably won't notice anything wrong.
Depression in children does
not always look like depression in adults. Depression in youngsters
and adults is fundamentally the same illness, but depressed young
people rarely have long, sad faces. They frequently have beautiful
wide smiles, trying hard not to be a burden to others, attempting
to make the best of their painful lives. If we use only the list
of adult symptoms, we will miss the vast majority of children
and adolescents suffering from depression.
Copyright © 1998 by
Trudy Carlson.
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Ben's Story:
The Life of a Bipolar Child:
The Suicide of My Son:
