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Empfield. M.D, M., & Bakalar, N. (2001). //Understanding Teenage Depression//. New York, NY: Owl Books.

1. Nicotine helps counter the symptoms of depression. 2. Drinking alcohol causes mood disorders leading to suicide reading to more teen drunk driving accidents. 3. ADHD shows symptoms of depression. 30% are more likely to get depression. 4. Families don't cause depression, but they help with the recovery process. 5. Genetics plays a part, not the whole part. 6. Having depressed parents is a cause of depression. You have a 30% chance of getting it if one parent has it and 70% if both your parents have it. 7. The genetics influences have not been shown in a lab but are concluded from statistics. 8. Linked to the X chromosome but can also be linked to the Y chromosome. 9.The children off the depressed parent are less likely to seek treatment than the children of the non-depressed parent. 10.Clinical depression can be inherited. 11. 20% of teens who suffer from depression also suffer from anxiety disorder. 12. Physical symptoms of anxiety may be: trembling, feeling shaky, muscle aches, or soreness. 13. Between ages of 15-24 suicide is the third leading cause of death: 20% male suicide and 14% female suicide. 14. Boys kill themselves 5 times more than females but females attempt suicide twice as often as boys. 15. Antidepressants are effective but rarely solve the problem. 16. "it is worth thinking about why it is that a youngster who goes into a psychiatric hospital doesn't seem to get quite the same degree of sympathy as one who goes into a medical hospital." 17. If anyone with a psychiatric disease avoids treatment because of it, that is more than unfortunate. It can be deadly. 18. Suicide attempts are a symptom of clinical depression. 19. Confidentiality is important once treatment begins. 20. There are two phases to the drug treatment of depression: the acute phase and the maintenance phase. 21. The acute phase involves the trial-and-error process. 22. The maintenance phase is the continuation of the first phase to prevent relapse. 23. Depression can reoccur if the medication is stopped.