Text Box: You may over sleep or not get enough sleep (hypersomnia or insomnia). You may have too much on your mind and can’t sleep because of it or you just want to forget about it and sleep it off. Unfortunately, this is common amongst many people now-a-days Text Box: Changes in sleep patterns Text Box: You or your teen may feel sad constantly or is always tearful. Being depressed creates a feeling of helplessness either because you don’t know how to fix your problem or your just stuck. Text Box: Frequent sadness, tearfulness Text Box: You or your teen may have lost interest in things that you have once enjoyed. Let’s say you like to draw, then you get really sad and that is all you can think about. You wouldn’t want to draw anymore or you just don’t feel up to it. Text Box: Loss of interest Text Box: For teenagers, social lives are everything. Who you hang with, who you date. When you’re depressed, you can’t usually keep up with these things and who wants to date someone who is sad all the time? It’s going to be hard to keep up with everything. Text Box: Can’t stay in a relationship Text Box: You or your teen may have withdrawn from the world but not exactly from everyone. A depressed teen would normally isolate themselves from their parents, socialize a lot less, try to hang out with different people, keep some friendships. Text Box: Withdrawal from MOST people Text Box: This one is more common now-a-days. There are so many fun, and interesting things to do on the internet and a depressed teen would naturally go on to escape their problems but unfortunately that doesn’t work out so well seeing that it would only increase their isolation... Text Box: INTERNET ADDICTIONS!!! :D Text Box: Symptoms of Depression Text Box: SITES TO HELP: http://www.focusas.com/Depression.html http://www.helpguide.org/mental/depression_teen.htm Understanding Depression: For Teens by Teens