132: The Biggest Cause of Teen Depression

The Teen Life Coach

Kids & Family

4.7 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

There are many factors that can cause depression in the teen years. Feeling better always starts with awareness of what the actual problem is so that we can fix it. This week's episode is all about one of the biggest reasons WHY you may be feeling sad or depressed.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about teen depression.
0:13.5	Hey guys, welcome to the podcast today. So today's podcast has been a long time in the making because this is an accumulation
0:25.4	of coaching teens for the past few years. And I wanted to do this podcast because I hear
0:32.3	the same things from different teens all over the world. Okay, so a lot of you teens are thinking the same
0:42.0	thing, okay? If this doesn't apply to you, then feel free to just go ahead and skip this episode.
0:47.9	Some episodes will apply to some of you and others. You'll want to skip, which is fine. My
0:53.2	feelings won't be hurt. And this episode is not
0:57.1	from a place of judgment at all. I just want to help you be aware of some things that are
1:04.0	happening inside your brain, right? I'm all about what's happening inside your guys's brain.
1:09.0	So I just want to help you understand what's going on.
1:13.0	Okay. I talk to a lot of you and most often when you guys tell me how you're doing or if I ask you
1:19.4	the most common emotion that you experience throughout the week, I often get the answer of sadness.
1:27.3	Okay. A lot of you tell me that you're sad or you experience
1:30.9	sadness a lot. Okay, many of you are feeling sad or you've been feeling sad for quite some time,
1:37.3	which is what we call depression. Now, sadness and depression are different. Sadness is a normal human emotion that we experience when we go
1:46.9	through a loss or grieve something. For example, when I was writing this episode, I was actually
1:53.7	in the hospital with my mom and she has been in the hospital for a few weeks now. And it has been a
1:59.7	crazy, emotional few weeks. It's looking like she is going to
2:04.5	recover now, thankfully, but it's been a wild few weeks with lots of emotions. Sadness being one of
2:11.7	them that I've experienced a lot. Okay. And I have just let myself be sad. I haven't tried to change that at all, and I've
2:18.9	just let myself cry whenever I've felt like crying, okay? Depression can happen for a few reasons,
2:26.4	including like our biochemistry, which is a fancy word for just the chemical makeup of our brain.
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