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Article: Dark moods: countless teens are drowning in clinical depression. Are you one of them?(YOUR MIND)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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As Will D. entered his teens, something inside him began to change. The once-easygoing student from Washington, D.C., became more anxious. His tension "was the kind that just sits in your stomach, as if you're really nervous about something," he recalls. "It was like that all the time." Back then, Will had nothing to be nervous about. But his anxiety continued to deepen, eventually morphing into a depression that struck him at the age of 15.
Will's anxiety was mixed with intense feelings of being down and an inability to control those feelings. "I was constantly tired; I had no motivation to leave my bed or my room. I felt like I was constantly worried but didn't ...