If your child or teen has been struggling with depression, you may be understandably worried. I mention “child” because it is not uncommon for a child to be depressed. While it does not happen as often in children as it does in adolescents and teenagers, I have seen children has young as 5 or 6 with some form of depression.
I’d like to clarify that there is a difference between reactive and endogenous (or biologically-based) depression. Reactive depression arises in response to upsetting life events, whereas endogenous depression ...