Panel advises depression screening for US teens

AP
Monday, March 30, 2009

The task force recommendations appear in April’s issue of the journal Pediatrics. And they go farther than the American Academy of Pediatrics’ own guidance for teen depression screening.

An estimated 6 percent of U.S. teenagers are clinically depressed. Evidence shows that detailed but simple questionnaires can accurately diagnose depression in primary-care settings such as a pediatrician’s office.

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The task force said that when followed by treatment, including psychotherapy, screening can help improve symptoms and help kids cope. Because depression can lead to persistent sadness, social isolation, school problems and even suicide, screening to treat it early is crucial, the panel said.

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11 Responses to “Panel advises depression screening for US teens”

1. Jerry Says:
   March 30th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

   Two spoon full of pills hepls the medicine go down

2. ¿un poco loco? Says:
   March 31st, 2009 at 12:34 am

   Great, after this goes into the new medical database Obama has arranged for us, these teens will be refused their rights to buy a firearm for the rest of their lives as having been deemed mental misfits just like the law passed last year against vets and any person that ever forced to take Ritalin, and this will soon apply to any adult that has ever been prescribed an anti-depressant or anti physoctic… Everything is going as planned, and it was planned as far back as the invention of all these medications… Very well conceived folks, I hope none of you fell for the”have your mental health checked” campaigns, because you won’t be able to have a gun either, in fact, just like England, they will remove all sharp instruments from your domicile’s, HA HA HA HA… SHEEP!

3. Alex (not Jones) Says:
   March 31st, 2009 at 5:11 am

   Drug profits must be down., plus maybe a few SRI patents are abotu to expire and they need to get the income stream boosted as little.

   Maybe we just need to put anti-depressants into the water supply, God knows this is a more sever problem than tooth decay!

   I think we need to treat the politicians for sever and debilitating ( to us) megalomania.

4. mike Says:
   March 31st, 2009 at 5:36 am

   I recommend insanity testing for all us politicians: Pre election & post office..

5. Alex (not Jones) Says:
   March 31st, 2009 at 6:01 am

   We need to drug the politicians. They are all suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder
   The symptoms are having an exaggerated sense of self-importance that is exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements.

6. Paula Revere Says:
   March 31st, 2009 at 8:31 am

   JEEEZUZ FKN CHRIST!!!!! This shows how out of touch these idiots really are. Of course teens are depressed, this is a normal part of being a teen. I have not met one singe teen…..myself included when I was one, who hasn’t been depressed at some point. As far as that goes, I’ve never known one person of ANY age who hasn’t been depressed at some point in their lives. To think that all teens should be “screened” for depression is ridiculous at best and privacy invading to boot. Have the teens really got ANYTHING to look forward to when they get out on their own? NO! No good jobs unless you’re talking about “security” positions, or the medical field. But of course those courses aren’t free, or even reasonably priced. Their parents are broke, in nearly every sense of the word, and can barely find their own way between their multiple jobs. The family has been systematically dismantled, and so there is no support for the teens on that level either. If I were a teen I’d be depressed as hell to. Just knowing that unless I have a rich family my options are war and and welfare……………well that’s about enough to make ANYONE suicidal. But then again……….it’s all by design isn’t it. Remember, this is a GOVERNMENT APPOINTED PANNEL. Would YOU trust them? I sure as FK wouldn’t. Oh but it’s ok…………..they only want what’s best for us right?

7. global plantation serf Says:
   March 31st, 2009 at 11:01 am

   Hmm… 11 trillion in debt, Iraq, Afghanistan, consistent 9/11 lies, rendition flights, Gitmo, FEMA camps, RIDICULOUS property taxes and housing prices, RISING taxes and no benefits, no good jobs, heavy illegal immigration, lying politicians, bad economy…

   http://www.costofwar.com/

   Yeah graduating into that I would be depressed too.

   The truth can suck but the alternative is to screw everything and enforce the lies and be a tool which kind of runs against my grain.

   

   Alex (not Jones) Reply:
   April 1st, 2009 at 5:01 am

   I don’t think that should make them depressed, it ough to get them really, really pissed off. But then the psychotropics work with that condition as well. It will help make them nice little obedient citizens.

8. Hereward Says:
   March 31st, 2009 at 3:52 pm

   It’s all about creating “conditions” that must be “treated.” They’ll be able to sell lots of toxic, debilitating drugs to people who don’t really need them. Then they’ll be able to sell more drugs to treat the side effects of the first drugs, and so on. The main problem with this scenario (for them) is that more people are catching on to the facts about prescription drugs, and it’s getting to be a harder sell.

   

   Alex (not Jones) Reply:
   March 31st, 2009 at 4:38 pm

   The greatest thing is using more drugs to treat the side effects of the previous drugs. Using that method I’ve seen them get some poor schmucks to take 12 different pills, one for the original condition and 11 to counteract the first.

9. wilcat Says:
   March 31st, 2009 at 5:11 pm

   I wonder if he is being sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies?

   At that teenagers are really more worried about passing their exams and what they are going to do once they leave school. Go to college, university, or a local employer. Maybe they are stuck in streamed classes where the other students are so unruly that the teachers don’t get time to cover the entire syallabus.