The Causes of Depression in Teenagers

            Depression is one of the parts of mental disorder which is affecting millions of people in this world. Depression can be described in many ways. Its main description is that it is a serious mental disorder in which a person suffers long periods of sadness, loneliness, and other negative feelings. depression can be happened to anyone, even if  for adult or teenager. This day, teenager depression is increasing briskly and often being treated eroneosly. There are so many stories about suicide of teenagers because of depression each year. As we know, every human can infrequently feel down, yet depression can lead the to have mental disorder, especially for teenagers. They just still can not understand their mind. Teenagers have always been vulnerable to depression for a variety of reasons. It's a confusing time of life because a teen's body is changing along with their relationships. They can also can get depression from their environment such as family, friends, and teachers. We can say that there are various thing that become the causes of depression for teenagers.

            One of the main causes of teenage depression is extreme trauma. Trauma in teenagers might occur because some reasons. For example is for those who lost their parents, friend or anyone whom they loved. If they lost someone who really meaningful in their life, they can be trauma to have another person because they don’t want to lose anyone again. Beside the lost of anyone whom they loved, bullying also can be the main concern about extreme trauma for teenagers. So we can say that a stressful event can give an extreme trauma for teenagers. When teenagers get the extreme trauma, they will just get depression about their condition. They will feel unsafe, insecure, and helpless. They just start to blame themselves about things that just happened. The very important point is some of them who can not control themselves just start to think to commit suicide. That is the worst thing that we need to concern. Since they are teenagers, they still can not think carefully when they want to do something. They just think that everything they want is the best for them, but in fact they just hurt themselves. Therefore, we can say that traumatic condition is thing that we need to concern about teenager depression.

            The next cause of teenage depression is due the situation of the family such as family circumstance. As we know, family especially the parents have a powerful impact fo teenagers. They spent so many times with their family, that’s why the situation of the family will give big effect for teenagers mental. For example when they see their parents argue, they will automatically record it in their mind. They will feel depressed because they start to think that their parents will get divorced. They start to confused to think what will happened if their parents get divorce since they just live with their parents. Another case about family is parents who always force their children to do whatever that they want even if they know that their children don’t like to do it. Because this situation, teenagers will think that their parents don’t love them and they start to underestimate themselves. The bad situation of family will bring the teenagers to have mental illness, especially for those who can not control their emotion. Teenagers who can not deal with family circumstance probably will leave their home and don’t want to comeback because they don’t want to face with more bad situation at their home. in conclusion, as a family we must always give full attention for them in order to make them comfortable.

Teenagers have a high focus with respect to the shape of the body and appearance. They began to compare their body with other people's bodies later lead to the setting of  the ideal  standards of the body. That standard is the ultimately make teenagers to have more negative view to evaluate themselves. This point of view can increase the negative thinking of the teenagers , which if in time is length will increase depressive low mood and self esteem. Dissatisfaction with appearance self including weight, height, skin color, hair, and face apparently become one of the most problems experienced by adolescents aspect for those who are suffering from depression. Based on one of the studies that body dissatisfaction identified as risk factors associated with psychopathology, including depressive symptoms. Especially if they do not have strong religious knowledge, they will increasingly blame themselves and not be grateful for what they have. Therefore parental support and teaching about religion and gratitude must be increased. The closest person must always remind that all of what they have are the best for them that was given. The aims of this is to keep them from dissatisfaction with themselves which can lead to depression.

Teenage depression is an awful disease that must come to an end. Teenagers who have depression should consider that it can disturb their mental and their emotion. Actually, there are so many things that can be the causes of depression in teenagers, but the third main causes are extreme trauma, family circumstance, and dissatisfaction of themselves. Extreme trauma can make teenagers feel unsafe, insecure and also helpless. There are so many things that can be the reason for extreme trauma for teenagers such as bullying, rape, and so on. Beside extreme trauma, family also can be the causes of depression. Many teenagers have depression because family circumstance such as divorce, abandoned by parents and many more. As we know, teenagers think that family is everything for them. They will always thinking about the problems in their family. If there are so many problems in a family, teenagers may be have depression about it. Not only that, many teenagers also can get depression because themselves. Teenagers usually like to compare themselves to others even if from their body, fashion or anything else. There are so many cases of teenage depression in this world. For me, the very important person to anticipate teenage depression is family. As we know that family will bring very big impact for teenagers. So, as parents, sisters or brothers we must always keep out attention for them to decrease the depression in teenagers.