Do you know what Depression Warning Signs are?
Do you know how to help someone with Depression?
We use the term depressed loosely to describe distress or unhappiness. While we can experiencefeeling sad, moody or low from time to time, this feeling is a normal response, however, is usually short-lived, and usually resolves itself without the need for any specific treatment.
Clinical Depression is more than just a low mood, is more than just the blues, being down in the dumps. It is a common mental disorder and a serious illness, characterised by sadness, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy and poor concentration, that lasts for too long.
It is a serious condition that affects a person's mind and body. It impacts all aspects of everyday life including eating, sleeping, working, relationships, and how a person thinks about himself or herself.
What gives Michelle Ferry and Janette Philp the right to write Teenage Depression Warning Signs?
They have lived, breathed, researched, interviewed, talked with and listened to teenagers. Most importantly, they are mothers who have had teenagers live with and without depression. Their teenagers had friends who have had depression and had seen friends die as a result of suicide.
It’s not a matter of having the right to write this book, it’s the fact that they care.
As parents, caregivers, a teacher, coaches, confidants and role-models, your children’s positive well-being is vital.
We need to care as a community and make a difference to the lives of our teenagers who often suffer alone, often without a clue with what’s going on in their life, let alone how to deal with it.
We do this by learning more about this illness and respect the disease of mental health and its issues.
Youth Focus – Prevention of Youth Suicide and Depression, has embraced the book and uses them to promote the Warning Signs of Teenage Depression to their clients.
