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    Teen Depression
    Teen Depression
    Teen Depression
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    Teen Depression

    By Peggy J. Parks

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    Author Peggy J. Parks tackles a crucial reality of being a teenager, depression. She offers young readers and researchers a means of understanding depression and its ramifications. Readers will be given essential insight into what causes depression, how people live with it, and the latest information about diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRosen Publishing
    Release dateNov 12, 2012
    ISBN9781420510959
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      Teen Depression - Peggy J. Parks

      © 2013 Gale, Cengage Learning

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright herein may be reproduced, transmitted, stored, or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including but not limited to photocopying, recording, scanning, digitizing, taping, Web distribution, information networks, or information storage and retrieval systems, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Every effort has been made to trace the owners of copyrighted material.

      LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

      Parks, Peggy J., 1951-Teen depression / by Peggy J. Parks.

      p. cm. -- (Diseases & disorders)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-1-4205-0837-6 (hardcover)

      1. Depression in adolescence--Juvenile literature. I. Title.

      RJ506.D4.P373 2013 616.85’2700835--dc23

      2012028092

      Lucent Books

      27500 Drake Rd. 

      Farmington Hills, MI 48331

      ISBN-13: 978-1-4205-0837-6

      ISBN-10: 1-4205-0837-7

      Printed in the United States of America

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      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Trapped in Darkness

      Chapter One

      What Is Depression?

      Chapter Two

      Causes of Depression in Teens

      Chapter Three

      Diagnosis and Treatment

      Chapter Four

      Living with Depression

      Chapter Five

      Hope for the Future

      Notes

      Glossary

      Organizations to Contact

      For More Information

      Index

      Picture Credits

      About the Author

      FOREWORD

      The Most Difficult Puzzles Ever Devised

      Charles Best, one of the pioneers in the search for a cure for diabetes, once explained what it is about medical research that intrigued him so. It’s not just the gratification of knowing one is helping people, he confided, although that probably is a more heroic and selfless motivation. Those feelings may enter in, but truly, what I find best is the feeling of going toe to toe with nature, of trying to solve the most difficult puzzles ever devised. The answers are there somewhere, those keys that will solve the puzzle and make the patient well. But how will those keys be found?

      Since the dawn of civilization, nothing has so puzzled people— and often frightened them, as well—as the onset of illness in a body or mind that had seemed healthy before. A seizure, the inability of a heart to pump, the sudden deterioration of muscle tone in a small child—being unable to reverse such conditions or even to understand why they occur was unspeakably frustrating to healers. Even before there were names for such conditions, even before they were understood at all, each was a reminder of how complex the human body was, and how vulnerable.

      While our grappling with understanding diseases has been frustrating at times, it has also provided some of humankind’s most heroic accomplishments. Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery in 1928 of a mold that could be turned into penicillin has resulted in the saving of untold millions of lives. The isolation of the enzyme insulin has reversed what was once a death sentence for anyone with diabetes. There have been great strides in combating conditions for which there is not yet a cure, too. Medicines can help AIDS patients live longer, diagnostic tools such as mammography and ultrasounds can help doctors find tumors while they are treatable, and laser surgery techniques have made the most intricate, minute operations routine.

      This toe-to-toe competition with diseases and disorders is even more remarkable when seen in a historical continuum. An astonishing amount of progress has been made in a very short time. Just two hundred years ago, the existence of germs as a cause of some diseases was unknown. In fact, it was less than 150 years ago that a British surgeon named Joseph Lister had difficulty persuading his fellow doctors that washing their hands before delivering a baby might increase the chances of a healthy delivery (especially if they had just attended to a diseased patient)!

      Each book in Lucent’s Diseases and Disorders series explores a disease or disorder and the knowledge that has been accumulated (or discarded) by doctors through the years. Each book also examines the tools used for pinpointing a diagnosis, as well as the various means that are used to treat or cure a disease. Finally, new ideas are presented—techniques or medicines that may be on the horizon.

      Frustration and disappointment are still part of medicine, for not every disease or condition can be cured or prevented. But the limitations of knowledge are being pushed outward constantly; the most difficult puzzles ever devised are finding challengers every day.

      INTRODUCTION

      Trapped in Darkness

      As contrary as it may seem, the teenage years can be a fun, happy time in someone’s life and also a very difficult time. The changes that occur during puberty affect the minds of young people as well as their bodies, which means that moodiness and feeling down is a normal part of growing up. These periods of sadness, anger, and confusion usually pass within a couple of days, and the teen feels much better. But the illness known as depression goes far beyond normal teenage blues. It is a serious medical condition that is characterized by feelings of deep sadness, hopelessness, and the sense that life no longer has any meaning. Therapeutic consultant Dore Frances explains: Occasional bad moods or acting out is to be expected, yet depression is something different. Depression can destroy the very essence of a teenager’s personality, causing an overwhelming sense of sadness, despair, or anger. ¹ Unlike normal bouts of gloominess, the sadness associated with depression does not fade away—it can last for weeks, months, and even years.

      Loneliness Haunted Me

      The deep, lingering sadness of depression is often confusing for teens who suffer from it. They cannot understand why they hurt so much, why they do not feel happy like their friends do, and why activities they used to enjoy are not fun anymore. Coping with this day after day can be unbearable, as Olivia Thompson knows. A pretty, popular teenager from Comstock Park, Michigan, Olivia had a variety of interests, including photography, basketball, and listening to music. She also volunteered her time to work at the local humane society, where she loved playing with the puppies and other animals. That all changed in January 2011, when she suddenly felt as though a curtain of darkness had fallen over her. I realized something was wrong with me, Olivia says. I started feeling sad and helpless. She withdrew from her friends, quit the middle school basketball team, wanted only to be alone, and spent hours crying in her bedroom. Loneliness haunted me, she says. I felt hollow inside. I could be in a crowded room and still feel lonely.² Olivia instinctively knew that what she was feeling was not normal, so she talked to her parents about it. She asked to have a mental health evaluation, only to be disheartened by a psychologist who dismissed her feelings as just part of

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