Walking In Darkness

Childhood Depression Awareness Day

Been a bit under the weather today (slight bug -- not quite at the taking the laptop into the bathroom stage at least), so wasn't planning to update today.

But there's waaaaay too much good stuff out there.

Most of us think of childhood as a carefree, mellow time -- but for many kids, it's not. According to the National Mental Health Association, depression may affect one in 33 children, and one in eight teens.

Today is Childhood Depression Awareness Day -- the NMHA has some great fact sheets on children and depression, and how adults can help.

I'm not going to get into a discussion of medications for children here -- there's a lot of controversy out there over whether we're over-medicating our young people, and whether they might be better served with other non-chemical methods of treatment. But we need to recognize that there's a problem out there, and left untreated, we might lose our future before we even find it.

posted by Cali Scribe @ 6:13 PM