A recent study sought to examine the risk of depression among young women. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, studied the psychiatric health of 155 female high school students, aged 17 to 18 years at the beginning of the study, over a period of five years to collect data. It was found that 47 percent of the participants had at least one episode of major depression within five years after high school graduation and that the risk peaked at about 18-19 years of age; bouts of depression during the study period were the first such episodes in about 37 percent of women. Authors note that the risk of depression was greatest in those women with a prior history of depression and that both academic pressure and relationships were strongly associated with the risk. The study is in “The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry”
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Hello, everybody, who is interested to be healthy. My name is Kelly. I learnt about depression by my own experience. Now I am ok. Here I want to share my thoughts and ideas how to treat depression symptoms.