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7 Signs Your Friends Are Making You Depressed

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Depression is a serious mental illness characterized by impaired functioning and a persistently despondent mood. And one of the most concerning risk factors for clinical depression is a lack of social support. Are you stuck with the wrong friends? Are they emotionally unavailable or unsupportive? Are your friends making you depressed? When we don’t have a strong support system to lean back on, it makes us more prone to depression. So it's important to recognize the signs your friends may be making you depressed.

If you relate to this video but you're still not sure if you should let go of your friendships, especially when the person is your best friend, we've also made a video on the signs you should let go of your best friend here: https://youtu.be/nNgIi4eJduY

Writer: Chloe Avenasa
Script Editor: Morgan Franz
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References:

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2018). Data & Statistics on Children’s Mental Health. Retrieved 02 July 2020 from www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/data.html.

Lin, N., Dean, A., & Ensel, W. M. (Eds.). (2013). Social support, life events, and depression. Academic Press.

American Psychological Association (2013). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – 5th Edition. APA Publishing; Washington, DC.

Prinstein, M. J. (2007). Moderators of peer contagion: A longitudinal examination of depression socialization between adolescents and their best friends. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 36(2), 159-170.

Muris, P. (2002). Relationships between self-efficacy and symptoms of anxiety and depression in a normal adolescent sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 32(2); 337-348.

Cambron, M. J., Acitelli, L. K., & Steinberg, L. (2010). When friends make you blue: The role of friendship contingent self-esteem in predicting self-esteem and depressive symptoms. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(3), 384-397.

Field, T., Miguel, D., & Sanders, C. (2001). Adolescent depression and risk factors. Adolescence, 36(143), 491.

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