What is Youth Depression?

Everyone goes through hard times, times when it is difficult to express or controlling your emotions. This is especially true during the adolescent years, which can lead to youth depression. At the best times, being a youth is challenging. You have to deal with body changes, which can make you feel awkward or uncomfortable. Then there are rapidly fluctuating emotions, caused by changing hormone levels. Teens also have to deal with a complicated social structure, trying to make and keep friends online and in person. Finally, this is a time where you are asking to ask big, existential questions for the first time. With everything that is going on it is only natural that you feel down or upset for a while!

Sometimes though, these feelings of sadness feel worse than normal. And they last longer than they usually do. They might keep you from feeling happy any part of the day. They might even keep you from doing activities you love. When this happens, when your life is changing from the emotions that you are feeling, you might be suffering from depression. As always, Evergreen Counselling Group recommends seeing a family doctor in concert with mental health concerns. If you have a family doctor, talk to them about how you are feeling. Studies show a higher level of success with counselling and a medical doctor when combating depression than either on their own!

How Can Counselling Help with Youth Depression?

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When you are struggling with depression, it can feel like you are all on your own. Through counselling, you gain someone to work through this time with you. First and foremost, the goal of counselling is to create a safe space where you can connect and feel like you can be open about what you are struggling with. Then the counsellor and the counselling participant work together to make a plan forward. Life is hard right now, but there is a path to hope and healing just around the corner!