Depression can appear at any age. Current research suggests that treatable depression is very prevalent among children and adolescents, especially among offspring of adults with depression. Sadness at the loss of a loved one or over a divorce is normal, but these losses can also be the trigger for a depressive episode. In fact, most major environmental changes can trigger depression. New mothers sometimes suffer with post partum depression.
Depression also afflicts many poor single working mothers of young children.
These women live with loneliness, financial stress, and the unrelieved pressure of rearing children and maintaining a household without another's help. All rights reserved.