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If you have a teenager, then you should know how to watch out for teen depression, which can be easily discounted by parents as drama, and which can claim the life of your child. Many teenagers display behavior that their parents call "moody", and they dismiss it when their teens mention depression or when their behavior comes in line with depression, leading to a complete lack of the vital warning signs that could prevent many teen tragedies.

At one time, doctors believed that the hormones associated with pregnancy were a good protection against depression. In more recent years, however, there has been a growing body of evidence that depression during pregnancy is a serious problem, affecting 10-20% of all women - the same proportion that women as whole suffer without adding pregnancy into the equation.

Depression is a severe and crippling emotional disorder that afflicts some 10-15% of the population worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. While there are many varieties of the disorder, the principal characteristics of the illness remain the same: a reduced level of self-esteem; lack of energy or interest in daily activities; reduced social functioning and damage to personal relationships; changes in appetite and weight; and gloomy and often suicidal thoughts and actions.

News.com.au - Dragun's family and close friends have spoken of the private battle she had fought with depression but how her lasting legacy would be the joy she brought to others. They said, in a statement released this week, that she had been an optimist whose ...

Baltimore Sun - The drug produces an intense high followed quickly by a crushing depression that can be relieved only by smoking more. Crack, which has been a major presence in Baltimore since the early 1990s, drives many female addicts into a relentless cycle of ...

Guardian Unlimited - The effect on his life has been disastrous; he has attempted suicide, been in psychiatric hospitals, and suffered depression. Now aged 34, he has not worked since 1998. Yet the appeal court ruled that he could not sue Wandsworth council, which was ...

Detroit Free Press - In the days and weeks following the verdict, Plummer suffered depression and found herself fighting tears every day. She was haunted by the pictures of Ann Marie, her eyes blackened, wounded by cigarette burns. "I was completely alone," Plummer said ...

Seattle Times - The generation that came through the Depression pounced on "free" like a cat on a mouse and, though they became the wealthiest older generation in history (there are now more impoverished children than older people), the myth is alive and well ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - ... happened afterward. Winters in the '30s were significantly warmer, and days below freezing considerably fewer, than what we've experienced here over the last decade or so. Nationally, some of the winter months were amazingly mild during the Depression ...

Detroit News - Tom Brokaw paid tribute to that generation of Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II in his 1998 book, "The Greatest Generation." Brokaw, who anchored the "NBC Nightly News" for 21 years, was inspired to write "The ...