Depression in Children and Adolescents - Webinar with Dr. Karen Dineen Wagner

Karen Dineen Wagner, M.D., Ph.D.
Scientific Council Member
NARSAD Independent and Young Investigator Grantee
Marie B. Gale Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston

[frankdimeglio]

The “euphoric” high from powerful painkillers involves a loss of concern (e.g. being carefree) that IS connected with depression and the loss of desire. Consider bodily detachment, including overeating.

Importantly, depression involves a loss (or a very significant reduction) of desire; as desire consists of intention and concern, thereby including interest as well. IMPORTANT. (Life can become increasingly undesirable in depression.) Consider emotion AND feeling. The integrated extensiveness of thought AND description is improved in the truly superior mind. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand, as imbalance and loss go together. Thought, emotion, AND feeling are interactive.

Importantly, addictions narrow and reduce experience. Addiction is inseparable from loss, escapism, imbalance, and/or distraction.

Consider what is desire. Consider long-term and treatment resistant depression. Now, consider emotional pain and loss. (Consider insensitivity, diminishment, and numbness.) Now, consider addiction; and carefully consider thought and memory. Importantly, thought, emotion, AND feeling are interactive.

Life is about living. Depression is agonizing and can be crippling. Sadly, a person may even choose death over living given the relative (or relational) absence of desire (and the desirability of life/living). Depression, when combined with addiction, is especially debilitating and is very dangerous.

Depression is very serious. In understanding the range that is and involves being depressed, life is understood to become significantly and incrementally unfulfilling, undesirable, difficult, unrewarding, burdensome, unsatisfying, and unpleasurable.

By Frank DiMeglio

[chinesepoem]

all very good, but the use of Omega - 3 need to be further investigated and researched and/or expanded here also to compare to other medications as it is a natural treatment in comparison to the others.

[teresasullivan]

my 13 year old son died by suiside he had depression and was put on 25mg sertraline then he was going to counseling 4 days a week his pediatrition upped his dosage to 50mg he was agitated and withdrawn not eating less than three week Dr's visits pediatrician raised it to 100mg on april 13th 2018 four days later he hung him self in my gaurage on april 16th i dont think he should have been changed so much so fast i think his dr killed him with this medication. he was my only child