Baby depression

How old do you have to be before you can suffer from depression? According to a news article today you only have to be four. The unnamed source (follow the link and you will see) have posted an article saying ‘girl of four suffering with depression’. Cut a long story short, she aint a well girl and the Doc’s put it down to her not being able to attend the same school as her nursery pals. At four I doubt you really know what depression is or what it means but I like to bet it has some detrimental effect on her state of mind in later life. She will probably be a very ‘needy’ girl, someone who can’t stand her own company and hates to be on her own. My facts are based on nothing more than speculation so don’t quote me on it. I personally need to be around my friends and loved ones, I’m shit on my own, my mind has me thinking all kinds of stupid things and I end up in a right state sometimes. Then again don’t we all want to be around friends and loved ones? Maybe not the tyrants of this world, they tend to want bombs around them.

I wonder, what is the difference between depression and stress? That’s another debate.

As a stress head myself I can probably look back to my childhood for some answers, just like the four year old may do. At least she has a whole news article to draw on for answers – the internet as a tool for therapy? – Welcome to my blog and my meandering thoughts! My quest for answers lead me to hazy memories of my dad constantly throwing my school bag and shoes down the bottom of the garden after telling me to ‘put them away’ three times. This would suggest reason to my obsessive cleanliness tendencies. What about the other 20 I have? I’m back to my ancestral trail story again right?