When a relative or loved one has recurrent episodes of depression, there is a profound disruption of family life. Family members experience pain, exhaustion, and are more prone to depression. Nowadays it insists upon it. I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients. Depression Related to Age Depressions can take place at any age.
Infants can have depression, as can people well into their second century on earth.
About six million American children under twelve have a clinical depression, much of it unrecognized and untreated. One in twenty adolescents suffers from depression. Hormonal changes, emerging identity crises, peer pressure, sexual issues, and the increased responsibility of approaching adulthood can contribute to depression. Tragically, the suicide rate among teenagers has almost tripled in one generation. The generation from eighteen to thirty sometimes called Generation-X realizes it may be the first generation in the history of the United States to be less affluent than the generation before.