Prevent Depression in Teens With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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I think your article is informative and a good resource for families. Cognitive behavioral and problem-solving therapies can really help teens and children learn the coping skills they need to develop to manage their moods. It's an amazing job to watch adolescents go from not having goals and dreams to having them! WOrking with adolescents is a specialty of mine--www.kimjonescounseling.com

-Kim Jones MA MFT

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CBT

I am the mother of a 11 yr old with G.A.D and S.A.D. She was diagnosed at the age of 8. Life was very difficult until we started treatment. I am a mother against rushing to the use of medications, so I found a psychologist that used CBT in her practice. Within a very short time, we saw amazing results! I could hardly believe it! The amount of stomach aches and headaches were diminished to virtually none, and when she did have an issue she was able to think it out and talk her self out of it. We are now 3 yrs into treatment, we no longer see a psychologist because she has it under control and even when life gets to her, she is able to keep her worries under control! It is an amazing treatment and process, and we were blessed to find a psychologist that was able to help cope with my daughters problems without adding medication to her daily life .

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Dysthymia

I suffer from dysthymia as well and CBT is the only thing that consistently helps. I tell myself two things...

1. All good people will be in a breathtaking afterlife someday, where there will be no depression, no pain, no illness and no discouragement;

2. It's worth being alive because I can relieve the suffering of others...even if it's just by adopting an abused animal or by donating $10 to hungry kids overseas.

These are just examples of CBT. It's a powerful therapy that makes it possible to fight tidal waves of depression ... which are often just chemical in nature, after all. CBT is a great tool for kids to have.

Another use of CBT

For over a decade now CBT has also been recognized as the leading therapy method in alcohol and drug treatment. By helping people to realize why they feel the need to use, we can address the causes and conditions that got them there in the first place. You might be interesting in knowing that it goes back to something even more basic than thoughts and feelings. It is all generated by our belief system and flows something like this:

Beliefs--thought--feelings--actions

In essence: What I believe controls how I think, how I feel, and how I act. It is not necessarily the situation that causes the actions but what I believe about the situation. Unfortunately most children have developed their belief system early on, sometimes before first grad. Our family, friends and of course most influentially the media tell use what we should believe about ourselves and the world around us.

I believe that a lot of the depression and anxiety in children develops when what were told doesn't add up to what we experience growing up. We either develop defense mechanisms or mental health disorders.

I work with a number of clients who suffer from co-occurring disorders such as substance abuse and depression. I use CBT to allow them to begin to recognize why the believe and think the way they do and in turn eliminate the "stinking thinking" by changing their belief system.

Thank you for your article. I ran across it on the web and you did a very good job of presenting the information. I plan on reading some of the others you have written. I believe it is important to get this type of information out. I have been volunteering as an addiction counselor for many years now and have recognized the need to address mental health issues in teens before it turns into a life disabling condition.

Just what we need

Another invented alphabet disease. Teenageism is a non-curable disease by anything but time to outgrow it.

adolescent depression

I wish you'd been around when I was a teen. Sadly, by then, I'd already experienced s few clinical depressive episodes, relating to sexual and emotional abuse. Worse, childhood depression wasn't really recognized as a problem back then. Your commenter who likened it to flu all the time should try the "black hole" I lived with most of my life. Flu would have been a relief! I still suffer with chronic dysthymia, and occasional bouts of deeper depression. I have learned about the thoughts vs feelings aspect and interrupting them, but problem-solving was a skill I never quite mastered, even in math classes. If your therapy cam break the cycle for kids now, good for you!