While depression is primarily believed by the general public to affect adults, the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry reports that nearly five perfect of children and adolescents suffer from clinical depression. Because children experience varied behaviors from one stage of development to the next, determining if a child is suffering from depression or […]

The dictionary defines depression as a state of being depressed.  In the medical sense depression is defined as being present if a person has at least some of the symptoms of depression on a consistent basis for at least two weeks. Depression is a medical disorder that causes overwhelming feelings of sadness and hopelessness, as […]