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The Mexican Social Security Institute (I.M.S.S.) has announced that three percent of children attending the institution between the ages of five and twelve, are suffering from depression.
Dr. José Luis Vázquez Ramírez, a specialist in the "Dr. Hernan Tovar Hector Acosta" Psychiatry Hospital said that in children whom lack maternal affection and support, depression may be seen as early as the first year of life.
Depression, as an emotional disorder in children, is reflected in the rejection of food, low weight, sleep problems and recurrent illness and/or infection of the respiratory, urinary and gastrointestinal systems.
Globally, more than two percent of children between five and 12 years suffer from some type of depression, while in Mexico the number of children that depression affects is closer to three percent, with some 500 cases per month detected in I.M.S.S. alone.
Childhood depression is often genetic in origin and can be triggered by heavy loads of family and external problems which severely damage self-esteem, leading to fears and anxieties which affect the child's daily habits and functions.
It is important to note, patients in the IMSS are treated primarily through play therapy, individual psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy, which can modify the child's emotional state, with a 90% success rate, without the use of antidepressant drugs.
