I had untreated clinical depression starting from a young age. When I was finally diagnosed at age 27, I started trying to figure out why this had happened to me.
Why would a child suffer from depression? What are the factors that can combine to create depression in a young child? In many cases, one of the usual suspects is a family history of mental illness. But there was no such history on either side of my family. So I started looking for other explanations.
What I found was very...
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Stress in childhood
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Childhood stress can be caused by any situation that requires a person to adapt or change. The situation often produces anxiety. Stress may be caused... Read more »
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