1st article for social issue

Teen Depression

Gathering Information- Notes

"Youth Depression." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 28 Apr.

2000. Web. 23 Sept. 2010. <http://www.2facts.com/article/i0500920>.

• Research and real life instances show that medications are necessarily effective on depressed teens.
• The suicide rate has nearly tripled since the 1960's.

• "Suicide is now the third- leading cause of death among people aged 14-19, claiming more young lives annually then AIDS, diabetes, and cancer combined." (pg. 1)
• Some health- care professionals feel as if some of the medications prescribed by physicians give a negative effect on young people with depression or mood disorders.
• Also, health-care professionals believe that these antidepressants give that negative effect because the young peoples' minds aren't fully developed.
• People also think that doctors are using medicine just to speed up the diagnoses process, instead of using counseling or parental bonding.
•   But, some doctors and even parents feel as if the medication has been a "lifesaver"(pg. 1) for their young adults.
• One of the reasons child depression wasn't studied as much before was because people believed that depression was caused by repressed childhood events, therefore children could not be depressed because they lacked the experiences.
• "The symptoms of childhood are often different then those of adults. As a result, childhood depression was- and continues to be- misdiagnosed." (pg. 2)
• About 6% of young people, ages nine to 17, suffer from some type of depression, and 4.9% of those people suffer from major depression.