Five-year-olds treated for depression and anxiety

[The Year Of The Fox]

Another load of codswallop IMO. Agencies (for want of a better word) desperate to put a name on every little bit of behaviour. A very small minority may be depressed in one way or another, but the majority will be feeling no different to how generations of kids before them have.

[Daggers]

Has thinking before posting gone out of fashion?

[Parafox]

Has thinking before posting gone out of fashion?

It would seem so. Obviously not everyone has had experience of mental health issues in children...

As I said... If only they knew

[21st Century Fox]

Has thinking before posting gone out of fashion?

Was it ever en vogue for some?!

[Guest MattP]

Wouldn't have even thought your mind had developed to the point you could even get depression at the age of 5.

Anxiety of course, I just can't see how anyone could be genuinely depressed when you can't even understand what it is.

[sphericalfox]

Has thinking before posting gone out of fashion?

What people fail to understand is that levels of stress vary from one human being to another. Some children cope reasonably well with difficult situations, whilst others will not. The same goes for teenagers and adults.

Whilst I didn't grow up in a war torn country, I lived in 'hood in the States, and what's more went to high school in a neighbourhood in which gun crime was rife, and where every day was as stressful as the next hoping you didn't get jumped again. This all aside to personal problems, serious family issues, and living in moderate poverty.

I've not had therapy nor meds. Self-prescribed, but that's another story.

I don't agree that meds are the way forward. I've seen too many American kids put on prescription, which has as a temporary measure works but not a cure. I would in fact say that some of those I know who have been on meds since childhood had more serious ramifications due to the side effects of the meds. Thus cloaking them in a cycle of prescriptions and due to the consequences of such, now will be subscribed to a lifetime of regular therapy.