Depression in Children and Its Homoeopathic Management with Magnesium Carbonicum

Abstract

Depression is common mental disorder seen across all age group including children and adolescents. Prevalence of depression ranges from 1.2% to 21% in the clinic based studies. During the decade of 1980-1989, the clinic prevalence of affective disease was 2%, which increased to 6.6% during the decade of 1990-1999 and which further increased to 13.49% from 2000-2006.