You couldn't even get the diagnosis until about the mid-'80s. Earlier child psychiatrists thought kids were not even cognitively capable of getting depressed.
Dr. Kelly N. Botteron
If an adult gets depressed and loses a year of function, they can generally get back close to where they were, but if a kid loses a year, it's really hard to catch up again in terms of development.
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