What are the statistics of children with bad living/home environments and childhood depression and of children with chemical imbalences causing childhood depression?
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Floydwywh
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While I'm unaware of the statistics of bad living situations and bad home environments, I do know that the statistics of children with chemical imbalances and clinical depression are going to be extremely low, because the DSM-IV TR (which is what Psychologists use to diagnose patients) requires that the client be a certain age for the diagnosis to be valid.
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Ender's comment is misinformed. Chemical imbalances is not a DSM diagnosis. There is no age requirement for a diagnosis of clinical depression. Clinical depression is not diagnosed much in young children. only about 1% i think. professionals are hesitant to diagnose youngsters and it is tough to diagnose children who haven't quite developed the sophisticated language skills to describe how they feel and why.
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