6 Signs Someone Grew Up with Depression

The signs that someone grew up with depression look completely different than depression symptoms in adults. Understanding how to overcome depression and deal with difficult emotions that may result is not easy. In this video, double-board certified psychiatrist, Dr. Domenick Sportelli, discusses how childhood depression can be properly treated to improve your mental health.

In this video, MedCircle host Kyle Kittleson and Dr. Dom walk through 6 signs someone grew up with depression:

00:00 Intro
00:54 Change in mood
02:24 Decreased interest in hobbies
03:04 Hopelessness/existential crisis
03:24 Energy levels & sleeping habits
03:41 Lassitude
03:51 Slowed movement & speech

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[RAINYDAYS]

Some parents love depressed kids....they are quiet, withdrawn and want to be alone. At least mine did, I was the "easy" child. No acknowledgment of being alive.

[TheGeekMonster]

Be careful in becoming too comfortable with labels or "we *tend* to see". I was an incredibly depressed, anxious, abused child. But I was absolutely obedient to authority figures, I was never in trouble, I was quiet and well-behaved. I turned everything inward. Whereas my brother presented more like what Dr. Dom is describing here; acting out, outbursts, getting in trouble a lot, etc.

[CamilaFuentes]

I used to sleep soooo much. As soon as I arrived home from school I went to sleep and even on weekends I spent most of my time sleeping. My family used to mock me and say that I was just lazy. Only as an adult could I realise that actually I've been depressed since I was a child.

[hunnybee_]

I grew up in a “you’ve got it good / someone always has it worse, so be grateful” household. so yeah... there’s always going to be someone else who has it better or worse, but that doesn’t mean that i’m not ever going to have issues and that i shouldn’t be allowed to express said issues. 😕 a very “sweep it under the rug” mentality. trying to work through it now tho.

also, i’m more of an internalized sufferer, than an outwardly one. so that doesn’t really help when it comes to talking about myself and my feelings. 😶

[thisisntallowed]

Some parents are also very apathetic and sort of don't see their children as humans

[bitKatwalk]

i never knew i was depressed until i wasnt depressed, school was tough because i just thought it was how life was.

[sundhiaslarashati]

For me, it was the lack of interest/ numbness I guess. I remember the most difficult essay that I needed to write was an essay about the most memorable/happiest moment in your life. I just couldn't think of any.

[beee]

Have you ever considered that the kid can just hide their depression by showing driven attitude, still going to school, doing all kind of activities, but when there's no one watching s/he will go quiet, and thinking about death?
Because that happens to me since elementary school up until now (now I'm already an adult), I can show a bubbly personality and straight just lay down thinking about how to stab myself or how hollow the life is.
Some people even a kid can hide their true behavior just like that so no one would worry about her/him, and I think I'm one of them

[aprildiamond]

Depression wasn't discussed when I was growing up. This is very useful

[slurpydurp]

I was so dissociated that I didn’t hear people talk to me and just sat there like a rock until my teacher touched my shoulder. I’ve cried very easily and was often distressed. The thought of dying calmed me down and made me happy. I also loved sleeping time because it meant the day was finally over.

I definitely had childhood depression

[devashrikulkarni]

Makes me realise that raising a kid the right way is a very difficult thing to do.

[sumeyrateke]

Back in college, a professor of mine observed how I was and asked if I was depressed. That was the first time someone finally said what I’ve been avoiding to accept to myself for YEARS. I told my mom a few weeks after, and she laughed at me and said that “you haven’t lived a life to even know what depression is like! I had depression, and you will never know how it was!”.

I pray I will never be like her with my own future kids.

[kellykelly]

I was a quiet, shy, down, under active, isolating type of kid with depression.

[chelseagirl]

When I was 15, I remember giving away all my belongings and saying goodbye to people. My mother took me to the doctor, I explained I was tired all the time. He replied “you are just being a teenager”. That is the mid-80s.

[StarlitLilies]

My phases of depression growing up:
Early Childhood- quiet; disengaged
Middle Childhood- aggressive; violent
Adolescence- melancholic
Adulthood- apathetic

[jordie]

"I don't care what [our] ego tells us." This is important. So many of our parents thought they were giving us "discipline" when they were actually giving us depression. We weren't allowed to criticise them, and they never stopped to think about how their behaviour made us feel. Negligent, egocentric parents are a child's first lesson in being powerless and unable to trust authority. They let us cry in our rooms alone or even punished us for withdrawing and only noticed our habits when they started affecting our grades, because having kids who failed in or washed out of school was embarrassing for them. The term "school refusal" was used on me never to explain or treat any problem but simply to make me feel shame for being a school refuser. Well, it worked. I felt so much shame I attempted suicide at 16. Then I dropped out of school and didn't go back until I was 29, and I felt shame for taking so long to do it.

[wendyreiersen]

I thought that you would talk about signs of an adult who grew up with depression. You made some important points. We need to think about why kids are doing what they are doing, not just punish or try to change the behavior. But don’t forget quiet kids who might be isolating in their rooms or off to the side, maybe underperforming in school, maybe not speaking up in class, not making friends, ... maybe sleeping a lot, maybe with headaches or stomach aches, ... kids who say that they think that everyone hates them, ... These kids need help. They tend to be invisible, but they desperately need to be seen. This is how they fall through the cracks. This was me.

And how does this play out as an adult? Vulnerability to abusive relationships, low self esteem, underachieving, hopelessness, continuing depression, ...

[robindabreu]

I've had anxiety and depression for as long as I can remember.

[kaishaman]

For many parents, a depressed teenager is an ideal child. They (the teenager) are more often quiet, reserved, do not party with friends, do not get in trouble... "A child should be seen and not heard" -- a depressed kid is often neither seen nor heard (having locked themself in their room). This child often does not defend their boundaries, interests and desires, which means for the parents that they are not "rebellious" (because, let's face it, parents call their child "rebellious" when that child finally gathers the courage to speak up and defend their personal boundaries -- and nobody in power likes that). A perfect, obedient, convenient child. Until one day they become a dead child, or, sometimes years later, a dead adult.
My parents were certainly happy that I was depressed from 12 to 25 years old. It's not their fault, they did not know any better. But today's parents have a duty to learn and do better than our parents could.

[foggymeadows]

Wish i can send this to my mom without her saying "it's all in our minds" and " Just pray to God and everything will be better" :)