They are painfully conscious of their maturing bodies. They feel socially inept. They swing wildly between being shy and embarrassed to brash and rebellious in a bid to disguise their insecurities and confusion. Most teenagers emerge unscathed or maybe with just a few nicks and bruises. But there are others who just cannot cope with the tumult of emotions and they fall into a depression.
Depression is an all-encompassing gloom that envelops every aspect of a person s existence.
It is different from the sadness one feels when one thinks of a rift within the family or the unhappiness associated with the failure to get into the university of your choice. Depression is not a mood or a phase. A depressed person feels that there is something fundamentally wrong with him and his life. He feels incapable of handling the smallest problems. He feels that nothing ever goes his way and that may be he doesn t deserve to be happy.