Many parents often worry about when children grow up and start school. How they can adjust themselves to society. How their lives are going to be. Sometimes, children may experience stress until becomes a stress accumulation and behavior change, start talking less, which make parents more worried about them.
Medical specialist in psychiatry department of children and adolescent, at Phyathai 2 Hospital has explained about the way that parents can observe their own children either they have the symptom or not including knowing how to handle the situation as follows
Being sad or having depression
When children are having depression, here are some symptoms
- Have a depressive disorders, some may feel moody.
- Feeling unhappy doing acitivites that used to like.
- Do not want to eat, having weight loss, or in some case may have overeating.
- Cannot sleep, waking up faster than usual. While in some people may keep sleeping all day.
- Lazy
- Cannot concentrate on learning and having a bad skill of memorizing things.
- Feeling guilty, and self-worthless.
- Want to commit suicide
- Genetic traits, if there is a history of depression in family. It will make children more suffer from the disease than other children.
- Some medication can cause depression such as chemotherapy, antihypertensive drug,etc.
- Some diseases, like autoimmune diseases.
There are consisted of stress, whether it comes from family problems, quarrel with partner, study, friends, being bullied, being afraid of things around such as peope or competition, including lack of self-confidence.
Symptoms
- Being introvert and less talking.
- Being sad and moody
- For example, that person used to like drawing but now stop liking it.
- Sleeping all day including crying.
- Complaining and saying they want to die.
Coping with depression
- Parents should always talk to their children. And observe some behaviors including asking them about life and struggling in order to help them solve problems includes prevent them from depression.
- Activities with children such as doing new activities include try changing atmosphere. In order to make children happier. Moreover, please keep in mind that those activities must be one that does not make their feelings or emotions getting worse.
- Talk to your child by comparing reason and result, do not let an anger take over, always take care of them with warmth. Includes allows children to tell problems , and relax the atmosphere not to be stressful.
- Keep an eye on their behaviors or ask teachers for cooperation to help monitor your child’s behavior. Openly talk to teachers and discuss the problems. In order to collaborate closely to the problems.
- If the symptoms are not getting better. Promptly consult a psychiatrist for an appropriate treatment.
Depression is considered as one of emotional disorders or emotional disease. Accordingly, a person always has a depressive emotion more than usual. And it can occur in one day or everyday for more than 2 weeks.
Children center
Phyathai 2 Hospital
Tel. 02 617-2444 ext. 3219-3220
