Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity. It can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, motivation, feelings, and sense of well-being. It may feature sadness, difficulty in thinking and concentration and a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping. People experiencing depression may have feelings of dejection, hopelessness and, sometimes, suicidal thoughts. It can either be short term or long term.How can parents' ill health affect their children? Research has shown that some children of parents with a severe and enduring mental illness experience greater levels of emotional, psychological and behavioural problems than children and young people in the rest of the population.Those with strict parents and when parenting features threats and violent behavior,” he said. ... According to a 2015 study by researchers at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, more than 60 percent of students and faculty members lived with depression or anxiety, with some reporting strict parenting as the cause.The researchers found that children overprotected or rejected by parents who suffer from depression or anxiety are more likely than other kids to develop the mental disorder, though not necessarily destined to develop it.
Critical parenting has been consistently associated with depression and, to a lesser extent, anxiety. It is hypothesized that parents who criticise and minimise the child's feelings, undermine the child's emotion regulation and increase their sensitivity to emotional health problems such as anxiety and depression.Children are sponges, after all – and we all know this intuitively. And there's a small but intriguing body of evidence suggesting that beyond a child's disposition, a parent's stress level can affect a child's very makeup, including his or her risk of mood disorders, addiction, and even disorders like ADHD and autism.