It is great that you have already gotten your daughter into treatment, which is a major step in dealing with depression. People with depression exhibit a host of concerning symptoms including sad mood, lack of energy, poor concentration, and low motivation. Because of this it is not uncommon for kids with depression to not want to go to school.
That being said, we strongly and consistently encourage kids with depression to go to school every day, despite how bad they are feeling, because we know that when a person with depression remains active, it actually can help improve her mood or at the very least keeps it from going down further.
On the contrary, if a child with depression avoids her regular activities, including school, it can contribute to the depression increasing in severity. So, in general, without knowing the particulars of your specific situation, you did the right thing in having her go. To help fight depression, try to encourage your daughter to be active in general. Engaging with her in a discussion or a game, for example, can be helpful.
We want to keep kids with depression from lying in bed and not doing anything or staring at a screen for hours. Ever since the schools closed down and went to remote, I've been so unmotivated. Last year, I was doing pretty good and was actually somewhat enjoying school, then the school closed down. The start of my eighth grade year has not been good. With only having like 4 classes everyday for half of the year, it was hard to learn and I feel like there weren't many good resources for me to use.
Because of … Read More. Because of how terrible this situation is, my parents sent me out to Pennsylvania to stay with my grandparents for the rest of the school year. Since being out here, it has been better since I have a better schedule and variety of classes but for some reason I still dread going to school. I am constantly overwhelmed with anxiety. I can only hope and pray that next year will actually be tolerable.
This has been very informative. I am an instructional aide, behavior specialist working from home. I have been seeing elementary students since Covid started for all reasons. I help them all I can, but it has been a struggle for me, trying to think of things that I can do with students through MS teams. I can't use most of my materials, I believe in learning by doing. I feel like I … Read More. I feel like I am self learning my job all over again.
Thank you so much for having free information. During this tough times Covid, every individual has to focus on diet and little bit of exercises to come out of depression and anxiety. School has made all my friends suicidal and depressed online and because everyone is failing that is causing all their families including mine to be extremely hostile to us because we can't pass. I feel so awful all the time and I have never felt like dropping out of school was a major option ever since the past year.
My friends and I are constantly going through abusive family situations and in person school was just … Read More. My friends and I are constantly going through abusive family situations and in person school was just the little bit of escape we had from constant pain at home.
I wish we could just end school entirely for the time being but still have a way for teachers to make their money. I know a lot of them are trying so hard and I feel really bad for them too. I am just in 6th grade but school gives me depression because I have an abusive family.
Every night without anyone knowing I would be crying. Coming out of 1st semester of sophomore year last year, I was insanely motivated and had great grades. Once the quarantine hit here in California and my school went to distance learning, I fell into a downward spiral of loss of motivation.
As distance learning went on I realized that all my tests and quizzes are super easy to pass because I have the whole internet to use on every test. This led me to … Read More. This led me to stop paying attention in my classes this year, junior Year. I never really learned the basics this year in most of my classes which really led me to not be able to understand the new stuff we are learning, especially chemistry.
Nearing towards the end of the 1st semester of junior year, I fear the drop of my grades as my test scores go down every week, which is a direct connection to my freedom as a teenager. What annoys me the most is the fact that I was fully set up and able to go strong into my junior year, the most important year of high school, but I was completely reset by Covid.
I realize that I am reforming my old habits of finding excuses to not turn in work and procrastinate which i actually am doing right now. I hope, somehow, I can find my footing in the next semester, and run. I want to have good grades next semester. School makes kids depressed.
They are not used to having no school. School makes kids extremely depressed. Find out how parents at your child's school can quickly check on their children's grades. If your child has fallen far behind, catching up may be downright impossible. If you believe that your child is simply not able to catch up on their schoolwork, you need to schedule a private time to talk with your child's teacher.
Be sure to include your child in this conversation. Empower them to be an advocate for themselves and their own mental health. Along with your child—and with their permission— let your child's teacher know that your child is struggling with depression and that you believe that they are not ready to catch up, or keep up, right now. One of the best ways to de-stigmatize mental health struggles is to speak about your concerns openly and provide room for reasonable accommodations.
Next, ask your child's teacher if there are ways they can reduce your child's schoolwork to a manageable amount of work until your child improves. You may wish to keep a written note of this meeting for your own records. Ask the teacher and the school to provide an official record and documentation of any meetings, agreements, and accommodations made. This step will create a paper trail in case there is a miscommunication later on.
Your written notes will also remind you of exactly the exact assignment modifications you and the teacher agreed on, and for what length of time the reduced school work will apply. If you find that what you originally agreed isn't working, you will have a record of what you tried.
In the event that your child's depression appears that it will affect your child's school performance for more than six months, you may wish to explore getting a plan.
The initial strategies to reduce workload will be useful in deciding what modifications should be included in the Tweens and teens in middle and high school see multiple teachers throughout the school day.
If your child does not have a specific homeroom or advisory teacher assigned to them, find a teacher to fill that role. This should be a teacher that your child feels comfortable talking to and that can be sure to be a regular point of contact throughout the day for other teachers and you. Discuss with the teacher how much they will collect information from other teachers and how often the monitoring teacher will communicate with you. Having one teacher who is central for school communication will keep the school teachers communicating with each other instead of not noticing problems or trying separate strategies that overload your child.
Different schools have different ways teachers communicate with each other and with parents. Work with your child's school to establish clear and open communication. Fluctuating energy levels can make studying difficult. Help your child to notice when they are beginning to feel overwhelmed so they can take a short break before they lose all of their energy pushing themselves too hard.
Effective early treatment can reduce the risk of future episodes of depression. Teachers can help by knowing the signs of depression, taking steps to guide students toward the help they need, and by being a source of support and encouragement. Teachers should know the signs that could mean a student is depressed. Students with depression may:.
Teachers should know student behaviors that can be warning signs for suicide , including:. Teachers should be aware of suicide prevention methods, and follow their school's protocol for how to:.
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