I have noticed over the last year a startling amount of teenagers claiming to be suffering from depression, as someone who has battled depression in the past years i usually ask what medications they have been on, those types of things. But now more often then not these kids are self diagnosed, because they feel sad they are depressed. Although some of these kids may be depressed i feel like this is really taking away from the severity of actual depression, making it worse for kids with actual depression...
Thoughts?
