Depression of Teenage Girls

During the adolescent period most often the girls develop depressive disorder. The rate of depressive illness is higher in teenage girls than teenage boys. During this age, the girls become very sensitive and they have less tolerance power than boys which makes them very emotional as a result they can easily be attacked by depression.

In the age of adolescent period, the girls have to go through the puberty stage which brings some physical changes along with biological and hormonal changes in their life and leads depressive illness. But it does mean that every teenage girl develops depression during puberty. Some of the girls can adjust with the changes and successfully overcome the puberty period. But some of them could not handle the sudden biological and hormonal changes and get severely depressed.

During teenage, the girls who develop depressive disorder, experience some signs which sometimes could reaches in severe stage. Such as feeling of loneliness or worthlessness, or reluctant to go to school or do study, even some girls express their feeling for fear of losing parents. Most of the depressed girls do not want to receive treatment for their illness as they are less confident for their recovery. Apart from puberty period, sexual and physical abuse are the highly featured factors which can lead depressive illness among them. Most of the girls could not express their unusual events of sexual abuse and get more depressed.

The parents can play a vital role for recovery of their children's depression. Sometimes they work as best medicine for their depressed child. The parents of an adolescence girl can help her by sharing her sorrows and difficulties. A depressed girl should get extra care and love from her parents. So the parents should accompany her and pass some quality time with their child so that she can remove her feeling of loneliness and worthlessness. The parents also can take her to the doctors and properly look after her medicine taking.

Now a day the number of depressed teenage girls has rapidly increased. A study has shown that 70% teenage girls experience depressive illness whereas only 14% teenage boys experience depressive disorder.