Thursday 18 April 2019

In autism, depression takes on unusual forms

 Depression may show up as insomnia and restlessness in children with #
autism, rather than as the more common feelings of sadness. The prevalence of depression in autism range from 10 to 72 percent. Still, a 2015 study found that only about half of autistic individuals who took their own lives had been diagnosed with depression, suggesting that their depression had gone undetected.

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