Parents play an important role in a child's development, and frequent quarrels between parents increase the risk of depression in children.
The main reason is that parental quarrels will make children think that family relations are not harmonious, resulting in a decrease in the intimacy between children and parents, so that children are unwilling to seek help when they encounter setbacks or difficulties, and there are poor emotional expressions, emotional irritability, etc., which in turn leads to negative emotions in children and increases the probability of depression in children.
The common factors that cause depression in children are mainly the following:
1. Genetic factors: Depression has a certain genetic predisposition, such as depression in both parents, then children born of the two may also be depressed.
2. Social and family factors: mainly refers to the adverse growth environment, as well as the sudden stimulation of major life events, such as the sudden death of relatives, the divorce of parents during childhood, and frequent quarrels between parents.
3. Others: Parents are too demanding of their children, often criticize and suppress their children, causing excessive psychological pressure on children, which may lead to poor children's ability to resist stress, and it is easy to produce self-abandonment pessimism due to small failures or mistakes, which will lead to depression.
Therefore, in the process of daily getting along, parents should create a warm family environment for their children, and choose the right time and occasion to solve the contradictions arising in life.
When the child is depressed and unconfident, he should be cared for in time. If the child has emotional abnormalities, such as emotional fluctuations, sudden decline in academic performance, loss of appetite, inferiority, shouting, etc., parents need to take the child to the doctor in time to eliminate depressive tendencies, and if necessary, they need to carry out psychological and drug dual treatment.
Contributed by: Adult Psychiatry (Male Ward) Tang Tao
Editor: Liu Yuchen
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