How should parents deal with children with mild depression?

Enlighten children more, don't give them too much pressure in study and life, let them contact other peers more, and let their body and mind be released. For children with severe depression, parents can take their children to do psychological counseling and find some professional psychologists to help them correct their psychological problems. At the same time, parents should also correct their own educational methods, so as to achieve the therapeutic effect.

Educational therapy

Whether parents educate their children in the right way has a very different influence on their children. Parents should not spoil their children too much, let alone be too strict with them, and let alone ignore their feelings. Only by adopting correct educational methods can children's depression be alleviated and treated.

drug therapy

For school-age children, depression is more serious, but there are also some antidepressants used for adjuvant treatment. Of course, medication is not recommended unless necessary, and even if medication is used, the same drug cannot be used for a long time, which will more or less harm the health of children.

Behavior changes greatly.

The behavior has changed a lot compared with before, which makes parents feel that their children are abnormal. Children don't like getting along with others, and even have an aversion to study and life.

Great physical changes

Children suffering from depression not only have psychological changes, but also have certain physical changes, such as headache, fatigue, loss of appetite, difficulty sleeping and other symptoms.

The mood changes greatly.

In addition, if a child suffers from depression, he may have resistance or even fear to some people or things, so he will deliberately avoid some people and things.

Depression is a common social disease. Together with autism and autism, it is the biggest threat to the healthy growth of children. When a child suffers from depression, how can parents help the child to treat it? Let's look at the symptoms of depression in children.

Depression should be treated at home.

Depression is not only the most common "mental cold", but also an ancient disease. There is a poem in The Book of Songs, Xiaoya, which reads: (To the effect) Without thinking and worrying, people will only commit suicide, drown their own light, and only sink themselves into the mire. This may be the earliest record of depression in the history of China. Depression is like a dark cloud in life. Even the parties have once again drowned their families in the shadows. They have no interest in life, no sense of happiness and pleasure. On the contrary, they feel useless, worthless, guilty, ashamed, self-blaming, tired, helpless, world-weary, tasteless in food, sweet in sleep, emotional or depressed, unwilling to communicate with others, or failed in communication.

The causes of depression may be different, but they are all social situations related to factors such as excessive control and low attention of parents in childhood, loss of sexual experience such as death and separation of relatives, unemployment and immigration, disappointment with honor and treatment, family conflicts, hostility, sexual depression, and lack of social support from relatives and friends. Because of this, our understanding of depression should not only focus on patients. Communication barriers between family members and lack of understanding and support are important environments for the occurrence and development of depression. Every family member, especially the parents, husbands or wives of the parties concerned, has a responsibility to the patients that cannot be ignored. In other words, depression is not only related to the individual's physique, but also related to the morbid interpersonal relationship of the whole family. For example, an arrogant husband keeps mocking his wife, or a child is in an atmosphere where a pair of unemotional parents often quarrel, or an overbearing mother-in-law keeps nagging her daughter-in-law, or an overbearing father ignores his son's needs ... So, now more and more psychiatrists in the world realize that the treatment of depression can't be limited to medication. Instead, it is necessary to systematically adjust the whole marriage and family background of the parties, help the parties rebuild an interpersonal network that actively supports individuals, improve the communication quality between patients and their families, correct the emotional response mode of family members' accusations, criticisms and fuss about the parties, and make family members treat the depressed patients at home in a new way.

In fact, many studies show that the effect of marriage or family therapy on improving depression is obvious. The main points of its treatment include: both husband and wife or all family members receive psychological counseling, learn the systematic theory of depression, interpersonal communication and social role knowledge, be willing to assume their own responsibilities, accept new thinking modes and learn new ways of communication; Let members listen to each other, understand each other's real experiences, change the original unreasonable beliefs and understandings, and adjust the original misplaced or rigid social roles; Give sincere care, encouragement and support to each other and rebuild intimate feelings. Experience shows that it is very necessary to take appropriate medication for depression, but the ancients said well: "If you are sad, the medicine will dry up." If you just take medicine blindly and avoid the role of self-regulation and family regulation in treatment, you can't really eliminate the root cause.

After discovering that children have mild depression, parents must maintain a harmonious family atmosphere at home, so that children will not have emotional fluctuations and aggravate their illness because of quarrels between adults. When I have time, I will take my children to public places to participate in group activities, exercise with them, increase their hobbies and strengthen their physique. After their self-confidence comes up in the activities, their children will become cheerful and happy bit by bit. When they often take their children to travel and see the outside world, they will broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge, so the depression will gradually disappear.

We need to enlighten him and guide him to think outside. General depression does not like to communicate with people. Generally, we need something beautiful to attract him and make him feel that the world is still very promising. He also has a lot of troubles in his heart and will definitely control him. Therefore, it is urgent to communicate with people to solve their troubles. People still need to be able to overcome it, and every day is beautiful. You can't live in the shadows.