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Stressed Kids Can
Become Depressed Adults
If your children suffer high levels
of stress, they are likely to be depressed and anxious as young
adults.
That's the conclusion of a study
in the May issue of The Archives of General Psychiatry,
based on 1,803 interviews among a sample of young adults aged
18 to 23 in a southern Florida community.
Interviewers asked about specific
kinds of stressful events or traumatic incidents over the course
of the participants' lifetimes. They also assessed the young adults
for a wide range of emotional disorders.
The researchers found the level
of lifetime exposure to adversity was associated with an increased
risk of developing depression or anxiety disorders.
"In some cases the experience itself
may be implicated in the observed elevation in risk, whereas in
others the event may represent simply a marker for the occurrence
of other stressors and/or the presence of other significant risk
factors," researchers R. Jay Turner and Donald A. Lloyd, of Florida
State University, said in a statement.
More information
The National Institute of Mental
Health has more about anxiety
disorders.
Reference
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