What can trigger depression in a pediatric patient?
Parents must pay attention to depression is not only adults will suffer, with the increasing pressure of learning, children have also become a high incidence of this disease, so parents must be triggered by the causes of the child suffering from this disease to do a good job of prevention and treatment, the following we will look at what causes can trigger pediatric depression?
The following are the causes of depression in children:
1.Hereditary factors: family hereditary factors play a role in the development of childhood depression. The closer the blood relationship, the higher the incidence. If a child's father or mother is depressed it can cause depression in children. If a depressed parent is quiet at home, doesn't participate in social activities, doesn't socialize much, or is overly concerned about his or her own physical health, the slightest discomfort is very stressful and anxiety, worry, all of which will have a direct impact on the child's mood.
2.Psychosocial factors: major life events, childhood misadventures, lack of social support and other factors, may promote depression on the basis of the original genetic factors. For example, the death of a loved one, parental tension or divorce, parental indifference to children, failure in exams, etc., often lead to dramatic emotional reactions and lead to emotional aggravation.
3.The influence of pre-morbid personality: children with acute depression have pre-morbid personalities characterized by stubbornness and disobedience, and may have passive-aggressive personalities. Once the child loses self-esteem or suffers a major setback, he or she will show aggression, and this aggression is not directly manifested, but the aggressive impulse is transformed into a tendency to depression, and the more he or she wants to be aggressive, the deeper the depression will be.
What are the dangers of depression?
1, sleep disorders: most patients with depression will have persistent sleep disorders, manifested as insomnia, difficulty in falling asleep, early awakening, poor quality of sleep and sleep rhythm disorders, etc., this sleep disorder will often make the patient's emotional problems bring great interference, for suicidal depression, early waking up will make the patient in the early hours of the morning to increase the chances of suicide.
2, negative and slow: the thinking and ideas of depressed patients will present a negative and slow state, do anything to feel difficult to complete, the future is uncertain, do not know where to go, the patient will also see themselves as worthless, magnify their shortcomings, that their own sins, should not again or drag others.
3, the decline in social function: depression patients are difficult to concentrate, brain activity decline, work efficiency is greatly reduced, memory is not as good as before, serious patients often lose the ability to work and study. The patient's body immune function will also decline, resulting in physiological activities slowed down.
4, induced physical diseases: suffering from depression, will induce some physical diseases, mainly changes in the autonomic nervous system, the performance of its loss of appetite, weight loss, constipation, impotence, amenorrhea, etc., patients with this kind of physical discomfort tends to interfere with the organs, depressed patients suffering from heart disease, the probability of experiencing a stroke is significantly higher than the general population.
5, patient suicide: depression and depression suicide high suicide rate is obvious to all, the vast majority of patients with depression is to end their lives by suicide, there is no any kind of mental illness and mental illness has such a high suicide rate.
Genetic factors I, psychosocial factors and the patient's personality, are able to induce children to suffer from depression, parents must pay attention to this disease, and actively understand the harm of this disease on the child, in order to increase the prevention and treatment of these causes in the day-to-day, to avoid the child suffering from this disease.