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4yr old with depression
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"Stress"?
FFS...
Get the Prozac out. :rolleyes:
:thumb:. Staying with other friends should really solve the problem.
On a serious note -- oh wait, i don't seem to have one.
Ffs, I know it was a sucky time having to leave everyone I knew at nursery. But I had to get on with it, as I was told to do. And I soon made new friends, and stole all the pens I could.
I was thinking this as well.
I know the reason given seems stupid to some people but I don't think anyone is in the position to judge.
Because their brains haven't developed enough to understand the contrast between being depressed and not being depressed.
She can't see her mates and she's taking an hissy fit. Well that's my take on things.
How does that mean she isn't depressed? I still maintain I have the flu when I'm experiencing a hardcore cold so I can't exactly fully understand the contrast either. I can still experience either.
No, it's different. Their brains are in a continual state of change. She's just feeling really low because she can't see her mates, she's grown a bond with them as lots of young people do in their early years and now this affects that bond, it doesn't mean that she is now depressed and needs medication. It's not depression in the medical sense we know it.
I understand that you are against medication but teenagers brains are in a continual state of change and as we know loads get depressed. I don't think it's fair to call her diagnosis of depression a load of bollocks just because she is four. At the moment, her world is probably her mates.
My feeling entirly, the parents dont seem much better either. I was upset whenI left nursery but I didnt get depression because I was apart from my friends, I just got over it.
I didn't say it was bollocks.
I'm also sceptical about treating young teenagers as depressed. I know when I was a young teen my mood was sky rocketing, happy one minute, confused and sad the next, doesn't mean I was bi-polar.
What you should have done is take a drug designed to treat an unproved theory, a theory that states that depression is caused by a chemical inbalance in the brain. :yeees:
Ai, mini-me was pretty gutted when she left nursery, half the year went to different school and she loved her nursery teacher. I didn't let her make too much of a fuss over it, though I listened when she said she missed her old friends. She got over it... A four year old should be able to get over leaeving their friends behind and making new ones. If they can't then there is something wrong somewhere, though not necesarily depression, more like manipulative little tyke who is miserable because it suits her and has her parents doing exactly what she wants them to be doing...
Oh thanks mate..but it's too late. My mind has consumed me, all I can think of is death and nihilism. Looks like I'm a goner. :crying:
How this is a news item I can't even begin to imagine.:banghead:
That's a fact is it?
Bollocks.
i cried almost all the way through nursery/school
to the point my dad had scratch marks on his back where i clung to him because i didnt wanna go!
i seriously doubt she is depressed....i am not saying its impossible for her to be depressed, just unlikely
adj.
1. Low in spirits; dejected.
I think the word depression had become bastardised somewhat of late. Nowadays people seem to immediately equate depression with the need to medicate.
I think you are confusing the adjective with the medical condition.
I think you're all wrong to say "She's not depressed." Who are you to diagnose her? That doctor has spent many years at medical school studying conditions like this and I bet he knows a damn sight lot more about it than you. Just because depression in MORE COMMON in adulthood, doesn't mean it's restricted to adulthood.
Yeah, this little girl might just be in a strop, but think about it. Her parents know her well and know when something is wrong with her. Her doctor is medically trained and I'm pretty sure he knows the difference between being depressed and in a mardy.
Until you've trained at medical school AND know everything about this little girl, you have no right to judge.
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It's a debating forum. If we had to have specialist and personal knowledge about every subject that comes up in here fuck all would be said :rolleyes:
doctors make mistakes too ya know........
Oh, and for what it's worth, if there was any chance at all of getting my child into East Herrington Juniors rather than Farringdon Primary I would grab it with both hands and never let go. It [the latter] is an awful school and feeds into the scariest comprehensive ever
Well until you have went to uni and got a degree in politics you have NO right to talk about politics! :rolleyes:
This doctor made the assessment based on his own personal opinion, there are probably thousands upon thousands of doctors who wouldn't have labelled her as depressed. This is what we are debating her.
Debating is about looking at both sides of the story. People shouldn't be so quick to judge. You're mostly saying that the doctor is wrong and that you are all right. Only because you think depression is an adult illness. You're closing the doors without looking behind them.