[neverdem]

Prevention of Depression in At-Risk Adolescents

FReebie

[Kevmo]

bookmark for later — I’m reading up on cognitive behavior therapy and, in particular, Rational Emotive Therapy which was developed by Albert Ellis. I’m intrigued by Dr. Miller’s treatment of Ellis’s work and the explanation that it’s the limbic system of the brain that needs retraining.

[Osnome]

>>He said there were several reasons why the treatment may be less effective when a parent is depressed. “It may be the biological risk for depression is greater in these adolescents — that if the parents were once depressed but aren’t depressed any longer, the biological risk isn’t as great,” he said.

Another possibility is that living in a home with a depressed parent is difficult for a child, he added, while a third possibility is that the teenagers model their parents’ behavior.
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Nature or nurture or both.....

There are many causes for depression.

Manic Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive can swing to a depressive mode.

It is also a symptom caused by Asperger’s Syndrome, I believe