Realization to parent that their child is struggling with depression alone a havoc to them. But it's a sad reality of today's world. With the increase in peer pressure and fear of failure leads a child to depression.
What Factors Lead To Depression in Children
Depression is a mental state of mind where children fell worthless if they can't achieve what they wishes for. However, there are many factors that leads to depression in children. Some of them are:
- Degraded physical health
- Bad event happen in past
- Toxic environment
- Genetic vulnerability
- Biochemical disturbance
Depression is not like mood swings. It's a series of negative thoughts that compiled in them that leads them to be depressed all the time.
How can parent know his child is suffering from depression?
This is the main thing to know exactly what triggers depression. There are several ways parents can guess his child is struggling and can't cope up with his emotional health. Some of them are:
- Became short tempered all of a sudden
- Continues feeling of sadness and hopelessness
- Negligible social interaction
- Changed appetite
- Change in sleep
- Fatigue
- Feeling of worthlessness and guilty
- Thought of attempting suicide
So if you see your child showing any of the behavior, beware, he/she might be depressed at early age. So it is good to talk to them directly in a friendly way.
How to cure your child from depression?
Now you have learnt about the symptoms of depression in your child. Then the very next thing as a parent must strike in your mind is how to cure it so that your child will lead a happy and peaceful life.
As depression is just a state of mind and series of thoughts then it can be treated by feeding good and motivational thoughts. Depression is curable. But the thing is you and your child have to co-operate with each other.
When it comes to treating depression. It could be
- Lifestyle changes
- Psychotherapy
- Medication and meditation
- Talk therapy
1. Lifestyle changes
Lifestyle changes are the best and effective way to cure your child from depression. You can start by doing exercise, meditation etc to improve your child's mental health.
2. Talk Therapy
Talk therapy is the best method to cure your child of depression. Although, before you start talk therapy, you should win his confidence so that he can tell you how he feel and what's the main reason for it. After that you can take some proactive steps to improve his mental health.
Following are some proactive methods you can use to improve how your child feels:
- Explain him about how worthy his body is. How important for him is to be healthy.
- Guide him about how important his sleeping schedule is. When a child is depressed, his sleeping posture and schedule both became bad. It is good if you advice him to turn off his phone before going to bed.
- Give him some task to do and reward him when the task completed. In this way, although small but confidence start building up in his mind.
- Be his friend and help him how to face and solve problems with patience. This will help him to develop strategy to cope his problem in future.
Ultimately, it is your decision how will you cure your child's future. You should win your child's trust so that you can cure him completely and prepare him to solve similar problem in future with ease.
3. Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy or cognitive behavioral therapy is the reputed way to cure depression with ease. If your child is suffering from severe depression, then you should go for it.
This therapy identify negative thoughts of your child and replace it with positive ones. This is prove to be effective to overcome fear or any other problematic situations.
4. Medication
Taking drugs to cure depression is the last thing a parent can think of. Most of the parent wish their child should nit use any medication just to cure depression. But when the depression is severe, taking drugs under doctor prescription is the need of the hour.
Antidepressants is given to those children who attempted to suicide once. So, if your child will not take such a huge step, then it is better to avoid antidepressants. Besides, take a close look at the behaviour of your child when he is starting to open up with you.
Meditation is also the best way to relieve stress for your child. It will soothe their mind and helps them to think in different ways.
Read my blog on simple meditative methods you can try to relive your depression to a greater extent
Bottom line
If your child is depressed at an early age, then it will adversely affect in their future life. Hence, it is best to talk to them about how they exactly they feel. Talk them even more when you see the symptoms of depression.
Prevention is better than cure
Early prevention of depression would help your child to get back on his track before depression take a serious toll in his life.
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