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• About 20 percent of adolescents will experience depression before they reach adulthood.

• Between 10 to 15 percent of adolescents have some symptoms of depression. 

• About 5 percent of adolescents can suffer from major depression.

• As many as 8.3 percent of adolescents suffer from depression for at least a year at a time, compared to about 5.3 percent of the general population. 

• 20 to 40 percent will have more than one episode within two years, and 70 percent will have more than one episode before adulthood.

• 15 percent of adolescents with depression eventually develop bipolar disorder. 

• A small percent of adolescents also suffer from seasonal depression

• Between 20 to 50 percent of adolescents who suffer from depression have a family member with depression or other mental disorder. 

• A teen suffering from depression is also at higher risk for other problems: 

• 30 percent of adolescents with depression also develop a substance abuse problem. 

• Adolescents with depression are likely to have very few friends and do little activity.

• Depressed adolescents are more likely to have trouble at school and in jobs. 

• Untreated depression is the number one cause of suicide, the third leading cause of death among adolescents.

• Less than 33 percent of teens with depression get help, yet 80 percent of teens with depression can be successfully treated if they seek help from a doctor or therapist.