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Depression among Adolescents

                Depression is the most common psychological problems of adolescence. Depression is a psychological disorder involving intense feeling of sadness, lack of energy, and feeling of hopelessness and despair. It is characterized by a strong sense of unhappiness, loss of pleasure in most activities, lack of control, poor self-worth and hopelessness. About 15 to 20 percent teenagers have had one or more major depressive episode and 2 to 8 percent are chronically depressed. Adolescent girls are twice as likely as boys to report persistent depressive symptoms. If allowed to persists, depression seriously impairs social, academic and vocational functioning of the adolescents.