Ask the Expert: Spotting Anxiety and Depression in Children
A child can develop anxiety or depression at any age, though they’re more likely to be diagnosed as they get older.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Trusted Source, from 2016 to 2019, 9.4 percent of children between the ages of 3 and 17 had an anxiety disorder, and 4.4 percent had depression.
In the past, it was thought that children were too young to experience depression. We now know that they do, though they might experience it differently than adults.
Research has found that depression and anxiety are also highly comorbid, meaning children are often diagnosed with both an anxiety disorder and depression at the same time. Younger children are more likely to experience separation anxiety, whereas social anxiety is more common as children age.
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