How Parental Depression Affect Child's Mental Health?

Raising a child is a challenge for a depressed parent. It can wreak the physic and mental health of a child. 

Parental depression can leads to a series of negative outcome for the whole family. In the toxic environment where child grew up, will leads to bad personality. Either they became quite or aggressive.

How to guess your child is getting depressed? 

There are many signs your child will show to you. Some of them are:

• Not intended to talk to you

When you are depressed, you don't want to talk to anyone. But a child is a free minded person, when he feel you don't engage with him, he confined himself in a shell. 

• Disrupting Coping Skills. 

It is mostly seen that a mother is a calm figure who loves his child dearely but father is always motivate him. If you can see any missing skill, then one of you need to take action. 

• Increase self guilt

Most of the children are suffering g from self guilt, when it comes to parental depression. They think they are responsible for the depression. 

If you can see These are some of the symptoms you can see these symptoms in your child, then it is possible that be is suffering from parental depression. 

How to cure depression in your child? 

Parental depression is a state of mind that a child develop due to the toxic environment in which they grew up. But it can be treated. Here are some of the measures you should take for child:

1. Seek professional assistance

It is the best to seek professionals. They will guide you to understand child psychology. They will give you tips and tricks to cure your child depression. 

2. Go for mental therapist

When it comes to detoxify yourself from negative thoughts, mental therapists  play a vital role. They will help tea h your child about depression and how they should face similar situation in future. 

3. Start  engaging with your child

Now, you start thinking about your child, it is good to talk to him. Engage with him. You can play games, draw different paintings together, encourage him to do things and reward him with the completion of the task. These things will definitely boosts up his morale and he start trusting you. 

4. Start yourself feel worthy

Your child is depressed because you are depressed. Hence, for the bright future of your child, start feeling worthy of yourself. It will definitely boost your morale too and also helps to iradicate negative thoughts

These are some of the steps you should take in order to cure your child at a n early stage of depression. 

Depression is a state of mind. It is just the compilation of negative thoughts that one just accumulate over a long time. Hence it can be cured. Just be positive and take rightful steps.