What Does it Mean to Have a Mental Health Disorders as a Teenager?
Mental illness is often a burden on peoples lives. It affects regular activities like school, work, shopping, and socializing. Early intervention and effective treatment is an important part of helping someone with a mental issue. The most common mental health issues among teenagers is anxiety and depression.
What is anxiety? - A feeling of worry, fear, or unease usually associated with an event that is going to happen soon, or when you are unsure the outcome of something. It is also know by psychiatrist as a nervous disorder characterized by excessive uneasiness, typically associated with compulsive behavior or panic attacks.
Symptoms:
What is depression? - A feeling described as being down, sad, blue, miserable or unhappy. Most people feel depressed from time to time, however, depression is an intense feeling of sadness, hopeless, worthless, and helpless for longer periods of time. It is a treatable medical condition.
Symptoms:
What is anxiety? - A feeling of worry, fear, or unease usually associated with an event that is going to happen soon, or when you are unsure the outcome of something. It is also know by psychiatrist as a nervous disorder characterized by excessive uneasiness, typically associated with compulsive behavior or panic attacks.
Symptoms:
- Feelings of panic, fear, uneasiness
- Uncontrollable, obsessive thoughts
- Repeated thoughts or flashbacks of traumatic experiences
- Nightmares
- Ritualistic behaviors
- Problems sleeping
- Inability to be still and calm
- Muscle tension
What is depression? - A feeling described as being down, sad, blue, miserable or unhappy. Most people feel depressed from time to time, however, depression is an intense feeling of sadness, hopeless, worthless, and helpless for longer periods of time. It is a treatable medical condition.
Symptoms:
- A depressed mood during most of the day, particularly the morning.
- A fatigue or loss of energy almost every day.
- Feelings of worthlessness or guilt almost every day.
- Impaired concentration, indecisiveness.
- Insomnia (inability to sleep) or hypersomnia (excessive sleeping)
- Decreased interest or pleasure in activities.
- Recurring thoughts of death or suicide, not fearing death.
- A sense of restlessness or being slowed down
- Significant weight loss or gain