Saturday, April 16, 2011

Preventing Depression among Children


Children are innocent beings who cannot express their emotions as strong and as clearly as adults can. Adults with their wisdom and sense of justice are able to distinguish between feelings and publicize those hide. Moreover, children are afraid to speak so clearly and often remain reluctant to their emotions. Sometimes they are too afraid to say what they suffer.

Sometimes children develop depression and an inability to communicate feelings to make the problem worse. They are difficult to handle the situation, and often no more depression. Parents keep their children closely for symptoms of depression and take the necessary measures to ensure that their children do not suffer from it.

Depression in children often loses their appetite and avoids socializing. They prefer to stay single stop hanging out with kids his age. To stop playing and resists his thoughts. These symptoms indicate that your child suffers and cannot be happy. As parents, you should comfort your child and talk to make sure they are nice and soft at the same time reassures your child.

When talking with your child, try to find the reason for their suffering. Sometimes an incident at school or a discussion with friends can also trigger this condition. If your child is able to trust you, you must be patient and listen to it. Do not overreact or get angry with your child. This can ruin any chance of frank conversation between you and your child.

Sometimes when a child sees his parents fight constantly the little things and the fight against all the time, it can make her sad. The separation of a parent, death of a loved one, etc. are some examples of situations that have a huge impact on children. During these occasions, the attention and affection of parents to help children cope. If you are unable to manage the situation, talk to a professional adviser to take to manage the situation.

• Provide your children with well-balanced foods, which will supply carbohydrate as well as protein. If you provide only carbohydrate then after a few hours (after burning off the calories) they can feel tired.

• Some alteration in diet can also leads to the depression.

• Sometime deep breathing is also to release depression from body.

• Children are always fond of chocolate, which contains excessive sugar & might motivate the allergies. Sometimes allergies are connected with mild depression.

• Gentle soothing touch always improves the feeling of bonding. Gently massage their neck, arms, back etc. Allow them to enjoy their favourite cartoon character, provide them stuffed animals to play.

• Make sure that you child participates in several activities, like- regular work outs, hiking, bike riding etc. These will help them to stay energetic.




Information provided on this blog is for educational purposes only. It is designed to support, not replace, personal medical care and should never be used as a substitute for personal medical attention, diagnosis, or hands-on treatment. I recommend all medical decisions be made in consultation with your personal health care provider.

1 comment:

  1. Your post really gives insight to the readers especially to all parents there. This will help parents to help their children cope depression. Thanks for sharing those info!
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    Krisha
    pediatric emr

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