Major Depression in Infants - Prescription or Prevention?

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Dear Friends,The following report in Medscape Psychiatry should open our eyes to the state of infants today. Not only are they being ravaged by very serious diseases like autism, cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, diabetes, coronary heart ailments, birth defects and now they are full into depression, "clinically significant". Infants as young as 3 !!Things are getting out of hand surely?What is going to happen now? Will there be an investigation into this phenomenon and an honest attempt to prevent this trend or are we searching for "clinical answers"?It is upto the doctors and parents to decide. The depressed child obviously cannot prevent itself from harm.We have seen how the "swine flu" opened up a huge market for the drugs and pharmaceutical majors. Will these ailments in children similarly help the pscychiatric

drugs manufacturers? What kind of a future and what kind of a society are we looking forward to?Regards,Jagannath.Major Depression Can Develop in Preschool ChildrenPauline Anderson

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August 6, 2009 — A new study validates the existence of major

depressive disorder (MDD) in children as young as 3 years and shows

that those with major depression at this young age are almost 4 times

more likely than their age-matched counterparts to have depression 2

years later.

The findings should go a long way toward silencing those who doubt

the existence of preschool depression, study investigators say.

"The skeptics — and there have been many — seem to feel that the

most important issue is whether depressed preschoolers grow into

depressed children, adolescents, and adults, and this paper is the

first step in demonstrating that that is, in fact, the case," lead

author Joan L. Luby, MD, from Washington University School of Medicine

in St. Louis, Missouri, told Medscape Psychiatry.

 

Dr. Luby added that this research also demonstrates that preschool

depression is not clinically insignificant and does not spontaneously

resolve.

The study is published in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.All it takes is just one vaccine to forever change your life. - Dawn, mother of vaccine damaged child.

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