The symptoms of depression affect teens nearly the same way depression affects adults. There are some differences. A teenager, on the other hand, will typically complain of boredom, loss of interest or apathy. Irritability is very common in teenage depression. Helplessness, despair and thoughts of suicide are also typical of teen depression.
Manic depression is also common in adolescents.
They will show both the symptoms of depression we ve already discussed, as well as symptoms of mania. The symptoms of mania will differ slightly in teens. It will present itself with a more irritable, atypical picture, more characteristic of a mixed state than classical euphoric mania. The course and prognosis of teenage depression is very much the same as that of an adult. That means there is a great risk of depressions reoccurring, and lasting for longer periods of time, if left untreated.