these are signs that your child is depressed. they are divided into two which are emotional and physical changes Emotional-changes feeling of sadness and crying irritability and feeling of anger over small issue loss of interest and pleasure over normal activities conflict with family and friends feeling of worthless guilt, fixation and self criticism extreme sense of rejection and need of reassurance trouble thinking, making descision and remebering things frequent thought of death physical/behavioural changes tiredness and loss of energy too much sleeping decreased apetite and weight loss use of alcohol restlessness slowed thinking speaking or body movement poor school performance