Several kids grow with little turmoil, but few find puberty like the detonation of time bomb – once it blasts nothing is same. Many heartbroken parents are mystified by the change and get agonized with their teen’s behavior. They often blame themselves for not being strict or not spending more time with them or find fault in their DNA.
Another faulty solution is to blame teens for their behavior. Teens experience daily struggle, so it is hard to know if the kid is handling a couple of issues healthily. Blaming them will only make disagreements and disputes worsen more and more.
What is normal teen anguish? How can you detect that your teen needs professional therapy? The answer to these question lies in two categories of adolescent depression.
Puberty accompanies grieving period, which gets triggered due to sudden awareness of life fragilities. They engage in disturbing thoughts about death as well as loss of childhood identity and innocence. Mortality realization that they and their dear ones are susceptible starts to obscure their outlook.
Developmental depression triggers internal unrest. It even opens a fresh chapter in the teen’s life, which is a new feeling about themselves. It is normal, but teenagers cannot handle this new feeling about themselves without sifting through uncertainties and insecurities. Separate individuation and identity are two issues related to developmental depression, which needs to be struggled with. Otherwise, teens remain stalled in childhood behavior like bullying or temper tantrums.
Atypical depression in a teen is caused when conditions worsen developmental depression creating more severe emotional instabilities and insecurities. It gets generated when there is an increase in emotional distress.
In developmental depression, teens experience mourning and melancholy that can be tolerated, but in the atypical depression, they struggle with crushing despair and unbearable psychic tension. The unnecessary feeling of frustration, hopelessness, or rage flares up, which frequently causes negativity, destructive obsession or impulsive moods.
Teens get engrossed in the psychic battle to avert these undesired insecurities and engage in defenses like dissociation, denial, or projection. These defenses are useful to maintain psychic energy. This is the reason that teens struggling with atypical depression appear consistently exhausted, tired, or hyper-vigilant.
It is hard to know what kind of depression your teen is struggling with. Some red flags, which demand professional attention are –
Save your kid from adolescence depression as soon as possible with professional attention and care!
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