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Childhood Depression
For many years its existence has been denied in childhood. Currently it is considered that the child may also have depression in the psychiatric sense of the word, but should talk about it when it has a certain length and importance. Unlike the adult, the vast majority of children are reactive depressions, i.e., there is a cause in the environment: depressions by excessive demand (school), parental separation, loss of a loved one, etc. Usually manifested by discouragement and loss of pleasure or interest in playing. Also anorexia, weight loss or insomnia is symptoms.
It is also true that young children may have depression, one might speak of two forms: the so-called analytic depression, caused by a “lack of support” of the mother, usually to leave her after 6 months of age, after it had created the link. And the basin called “hospitality” in which the separation occurred before the mother created or strengthened the link (before 6 months of age). The latter form can become very serious if not treated before 5 months of age. It occurs in critically ill children from birth who are hospitalized but exceptionally long today because the current inpatient units allow a stay, however minimal, from mother to child.
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