Title: Depression in Teenagers: All You Need to Know | Psych Central
Headings: What to Know About Teenage Depression
What to Know About Teenage Depression
If you think that you or a teenager you know might have depression, you’ve come to the right place.
How common is depression in teenagers?
Symptoms
If suicidal thoughts are surfacing
Causes and risk factors
Diagnosis
Treatment
How to help a teen with depression
What next?

Content: These include: severe life stress
other mental health disorders, like anxiety
inequities, including those related to poverty, race, or gender
experiences of loss or grief
family conflict
chronic illness
significant life changes, like moving or parental divorce
The more risk factors adolescents encounter, the greater the potential impact on their mental health. For teenagers, the pressures of society — coming from friends, family, entertainment, and media -— can increase the risk for mental health conditions. Issues with body image, appearance, gender identity, and sexual identity are common in developing teens and can contribute to depression. Want to learn more? You can read about sexual identity and how to support someone exploring theirs here. Young people, and especially girls, from migrant or impoverished communities are disproportionately affected by depression and other mental health conditions. This is true within communities of color, too. The greater number of environmental risk factors these teens typically face make developing symptoms of depression more likely. These environmental factors include: