What is Depression - Childhood

Clinical depression is a state of sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of dail...

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I found this group doing a search for depression and kids. It seems interesting and I think I'll stay and look around. My son has been in talk therapy since last June, almost a year now and has greatly improved with his anger issues and now we are concentrating on his anxiety/ depression issues. It seems he hits these lows and I feel helpless in trying to comfort him. I have talked this over with his therapist and we are looking into meds for him now. That is where I stand with my son. As far as I am concerned, I am on Lexapro and doing ok.

Jeanette
Posted on 03/26/08, 10:03 pm
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Reply #1 - 04/04/08  1:49pm
" my son has depression and anxiety and anger. My other son has SAD and its really hard .I have twin boys 14 years old as of tomorrow the 5th.Keep up your good work. "
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Reply #2 - 04/20/08  8:25pm
" i'd like to recommend www.bpkids.org for you. i'm a bipolar raising a bipolar child. this site is of great help in addition to this one. "
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