Wednesday 04/June/2025 – 10:26 AM
Understanding childhood depression is often misunderstood, identifying early signs, seeking help, and providing psychological and social support, can prevent long -term damage, and help children recover, and depression in children is real, and often passes without being observed by parents, and unlike adults, children may not have vocabulary or sufficient awareness to express what they feel, which is difficult for them to distinguish His signs, according to what was published in the Times Now newspaper.
Say Dr. Himani Narula Khanna, a pediatrician who specializes in behavioral growth and an expert in mental health of adolescents, parents must stop ignoring children with depression, especially since many children are fighting depression and psychological problems silently, and parents usually assume that children are going through mood swings only.
Signs of children with depression and psychological problems
Children screaming from small things.
Withdrawal from the activities they love
Facing difficulty in eating and sleeping patterns.
They appear fatigue all the time.
They have difficulty focusing.
Mental health experts urged parents to pay attention to the symptoms of depression in young people, except If these symptoms persist for more than two weeks and begin to affect the child’s social life, study, friendship, or family relationships, it may be time to think about clinical depression, a health condition related to psychological health that affects young people even at pre -school age.
