Is it common to have depression when your young?!
Question:
Is it common to have depression when your young?
Is it common to have depression when you were young , like around 9-14 years old?
Answers:
Yes, I think it is, even though it's not usually diagnosed that way. It's common for parents and other people to just call it "growing pains." But I know that my depressive episodes started at least as early as nine years old when I really felt like I couldn't get up in the morning to go to school and would keep re-setting the alarm clock to the latest possible time. By the time I was 13-15, I was depressed much of the time and couldn't relate to my classmates who seemed to be having a happy, carefree life (though now I know that a lot of them were not.)