At a certain point, we all feel down. Feeing the “blues” is normal. However the problem could be more than the “blues”, if you mostly remain sad and the feeling starts to affect your relationships, grades and your behavior in a number of ways.  The problem could be a serious illness known as the adolescent depression that affects about four out of every hundred teenagers, each year.

  

Though there is no rule as such for determining all the teen depression symptoms, there could be numerous signs for identifying it. Therefore if any of the following adolescent depression signs are noticed, consulting a professional for help would be advisable.

* Constantly feeling sad (For no valid reason, you cry quite a lot.)

* Constantly feeling guilty for no valid reason again (Feeling that you are worthless and of no good.)

* Having low self-esteem of losing confidence.

* Seeing life as something meaningless, with nothing good to come out of your life ever.  

* Losing temper for little things, getting irritated quite easily, or tendency to start overreacting.

* Changes in your sleep pattern. You either sleep less or probably sleep more or even feel difficulty in falling or staying in sleep.           

* Change in your usual eating habits. There could be an appetite loss or a tendency to consume more than usual. A drastic weight loss or weight gain.

* Thinking of death, or feeling as if you are dying and probably also having thoughts of committing suicide, regardless of whether you have the capacity to really harm yourself or not.