4 Year Old Suffering with Depression - Holy God!!

connundrum

Here.

I saw the doctor interview on Sky News, he was recommending medication for the kid. Jesus Christ! Have we lost our feckin minds???

The kid is 4!! My ma would clipped me round the ear and told me to cop on..

Orla Barry is discurring the 'case' with a psychiatrist on Newstalk now.

Genghiz Cohen

thats just over reacting.

Tobias Greeshman

I remember reading before that there was a case similar to this with a child of about ten or so who suffered from Depression (supposedly). A psychiatrist wanted to put them on Anti-Depressants.

I think it's crazy, and probably dangerous to the childs future mental health.

Rb

Genghiz Cohen wrote:

thats just over reacting.

Aye, thats what I thought when I read it too. Kid wanted to go to the same school as her friends, didn't get her way and is now sulking.

Crazy though. I'd just hope that they wouldn't stick a 4 year old girl on anti-depressants.

gucci

aaahhh look at her little face.

shes not depressed, just scared of new enviornment,not making friends,being alone etc, im surely nearly all of us felt that when we went to school

monkeyfudge

You do realise that depression isn't just about feeling bad, right?

If the child has a imbalance of neurotransmitters then it can lead to clinical depression.

Why would think only adults could suffer from this?

gucci

monkeyfudge wrote:

You do realise that depression isn't just about feeling bad, right?

If the child has a imbalance of neurotransmitters then it can lead to clinical depression.

Why would think only adults could suffer from this?

yeah i do understand that there are a number of complexities to depression however in this case which of us can make a distinction as we dont know the child or have observed its behaviour before or after it started school.

starting school/changing schools is one of the most stressful times in a childs life,and also for parents. The child is being rmoved from a familiar enviornment and placed in a new one with people she dosnt know, its only natural that it would take time to adjust, what i was saying was that alot of her behaviour could be put down to this and at a level it might not be depression.

Mossy Monk

the mother was interviewed on Sky News the other day. the woman asked her why doesnt she bring the child to her old classmates to play. she looked blankly at the camera and said nothing

this is the biggest load of bollocks. slow news week

Suaimhneach

She probably just wants to get the kid into the school she didnt get into because she applied late.. tbh

Give a hug and a bar of chocolate and tell her you love her. Four year olds dont need to hear "Honey, you've got clinical depression"

magick

Bate her with shhhhtick, then lock her in the coal hole for a day or 2, that will teach her to be thankful for freedom people and food.

BaZmO*

By the look of her mother's sour puss face it looks like a case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Well to me it does anyway.

smallpaws

That's surreal and just fricking stupid. It's going to be interesting to see what the effects of dosing a tiny child with antidepressants is going to be; dosing meds for kids is not the most exact thing, giving antidepressants to a kid that young is just nuts.

greenkittie

Perhaps this particular case does not have depression but of course a 4 year old can have depression. Same as anyone else, its less common but it does happen. When i was that age i hated myself so much i used to pull all my hair out, its not that unusual.

Rb

BaZmO* wrote:

By the look of her mother's sour puss face it looks like a case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Well to me it does anyway.

Aye, it does hint a bit of it alright.

Vegeta

magick wrote:

Bate her with shhhhtick, then lock her in the coal hole for a day or 2, that will teach her to be thankful for freedom people and food.

are you available to babysit???

RoundyMooney

magick wrote:

Bate her with shhhhtick, then lock her in the coal hole for a day or 2, that will teach her to be thankful for freedom people and food.

Yes, exactly what parents of that calibre deserve IMHO.

Poor kid hasn't got a prayer.

senordingdong

I wonder which of them need to grow up more.

Black Swan

I don't know about you guys, but I am upset with the news taking advantage of the problems of a 4 year old girl. This reminds me of an old song by Don Henley called "Dirty Laundry" that was critical of the news media.

Terry

monkeyfudge wrote:

You do realise that depression isn't just about feeling bad, right?

If the child has a imbalance of neurotransmitters then it can lead to clinical depression.

Why would think only adults could suffer from this?

exactly.
I had OCD when i was 4. still have it to a small extent (i'm not talkming jack nicholson in "as good as it gets", but it was fairly annoying)
to all of you nay sayers, i put this to you: can you tell exactly what that child is thinking?
didn't think so. until you do know what is going on in that childs mind, i suggest you refrain from commenting on her mental health.
as someone who has been battling depression for half of my life, i can tell you that it affects every person differently and only those suffering from depression can relate to others with the same condition.

Sam Vimes

monkeyfudge wrote:

You do realise that depression isn't just about feeling bad, right?

If the child has a imbalance of neurotransmitters then it can lead to clinical depression.

Why would think only adults could suffer from this?

i was listening on the radio to a psychiatrist who said that dozens of studies have shown that anti-depressants don't help children. they feel better for a while because they've got a dose of serotonin but then go back to the way they were. imo, messing with anyone's brain chemistry is dangerous and messing with a child's should be a capital offence

the child is scared and lonely. she needs her mother's love and some new friends, not drugs

my mother was on anti depressants for years and only started to get better when she stopped taking them. she's fine now and drug free

this reminds me of an episode of south park, except it was about treating ADD in children instead of depression:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DMA8K4cBMkU

Heyes

Jes i thought that was gonna be a case in america, but not in the uk .... she needs to snap out of that now, as said above its just a change of environment that she needs to get used to. what is she going to be like when she s older ?!!? she cant rely on the same people all the time, she needs to get out there and meet new ones.