Statistics
• 5% of adolescents experience depression in a given year; 20% eventually do
• Around age 13, depression becomes twice as common among girls
Warning Signs
• Declining interest in personal care or appearance
• A tendency to ruminate
• Expressions of powerlessness
• Persistent pessimism
Prevention
• One successful program helps at-risk kids change negative thinking patterns. Also, a Harvard approach teaches symptomatic kids that depression is treatable and has genetic origins, lifting the stigma