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How do you acknowledge that your little child is facing issues of depression?

This one is quite weird, and unimaginable for me to read through the mind of a little child, to discover if he or she is depressed. What are the symptoms that shows, your child is suffering from depression?
 
The youngest age that a child can become depressed is 3 years old. However, it is very difficult to identify childhood depression. I have a distant relative, who has a girl suffering from depression. She was diagnosed with depression at the age of 7.
 
I think the symptoms are often understandable when you face them. And another thing is that we have to see how they handle the depression by talking about it. Lot of times they don't tell you what and how. So on that context we have to learn to accept few things about them and let them speak more.
 
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