Is Depression Really Killing our Youth?

Depression is the most common disease these days in almost every age. People are unsatisfied, ungrateful of what they have, worried and insecure about future and overthink a lot of the mistakes and events occurred in past.

Teens are Often Difficult to Understand

Interestingly enough, the rate of depression is slightly increasing in young people aged from 12 to 20. Those who are parent or sibling to youths might think teens are some moody fuming monsters living under your roof with a lot of drama and extreme feelings. These creatures are often difficult to understand. But have you ever wonder what is making them to complex and depressed at this stage?

Customs of Parenting have reformed a Lot

Parenting has changed a lot since then. If you wish to treat your child the way your parents treated you, it wouldn’t work the same for them. Or if you let them do whatever they want to do or spoon feed your 21 22 years old like a toddler then results are quite obvious.

We need to realize this fact that things don’t work the way they used to be 20 or 30 years back. At that time, the youth was not exposed to reality and was not pressurized the way it is now. They didn’t use to spend a quite lot of their time with technology. Back then when you wished for something you had to wait long enough to get it, now if your child wishes anything all he needs is your credit card number for online shopping or sometimes it’s even simpler than that. Want men’s cotton pants or Girls’ apparel online, all options are just a click away from us. These choices have made our way of living a little different.

Be Friends with Your Teens

Lack of communication! The answer is quite simple if you don’t want your teen child, friend or sibling to go into depression LISTEN TO THEM. Be friends with them, the one they can pour their hearts out with. Sometimes all they need is a kind listener. Without judging, or advising or lecturing them about life and their mistakes just try to hear what they have got within them. These monsters are sometimes really despairing from inside, who might need the right attention from the right person. If the family is not there to listen to them they will find it someone else which sometimes is not better for any of us.

This blog is originally posted on Chase Value Centre