[Suicide and depression in adolescents].
In the adult, depression and suicide are strongly linked, and the effectiveness of the gesture is correlated with the depth of depression. In the adolescent, a correlation between suicide and depression was long denied because of the particularity of the signs of depression at that age. Presently, such a correlation is accepted, as shown by epidemiologic studies (retrospective and prospective) in suicidal or depressed adolescents. In the general population a relationship between the depressive state and the idea of suicide appears significant. From the psychopathological standpoint, a suicide attempt appears as a desire to attack one's own body, and depression as an impossibility to separate oneself from one's infant past, by which both differ from manifestations in the adult.
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Service universitaire de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent Centre hospitalier Henri-Laborit, Poitiers.
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology