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What's the difference between a depressed teen and someone who suffers real long-term depression?


I'm talking about bi-polar, unipolar, schizophrenic, manic, and the like against common teenage gloom. I speak from firsthand experience with the former.

A depressed teen usually isn't depressed for a long time. It is usually short-term depression. Anyone can have short-term depression. The long-term depression is usually caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain that needs medicine to treat it whereas the short-term depression doesn't always need medicine to treat it. However, short-term depression can turn into long-term depression if the cause of it is not dealt with in a timely fashion.
teens are depressed because they dont get their way or because the teen is emo and the other depressed person's wife just left them...there, I hope that helps.
People can get whats called "Situational Depression" that is caused by bad events in their lives (or adolesence) but if after 3-6 months of professional therapy, the psychologist still beleives that they are substantially depressed, then they are assigned one of those conditions.
If it last for more than a couple of weeks.
every one gets depressed. teens get it because things just get them down but they could have suffered for a while before some one noticed. real long term depreesion is something totaly different. you have been through all the ups and downs but are still here. depression has many ratings and only a doctor can decide what you have.
i have depression for many years now
Real long term depression is (quite surprisingly) LONG TERM. It is a disorder that requires constant medical attention and is completely serious. While teens also have needs and go through "drama and trauma" It's just a small factor of their lives that soon will pass after they find a new boyfriend or find something that makes them happy and stick with it. Don't get me wrong, teens can go through the same long term effects, but there is usually a stage tweens and teens have to drag themselves through before reaching adulthood. They notice things aren't as bad as they could be and stop dwelling in self pity, and take a step out into the world and try to make their mark in it. It's an ongoing cycle.
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