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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting that the clinical depression cases I know of are not the "so stressed" high achieving high schoolers.  [/quote]

Slightly off topic from OP's original question, but FWIW I was one of those "so stressed" kids who shouldered massive parental expectations in elementary, middle and high school.

I staved off depression in those years by focusing on the task at hand:  achieving, achieving, achieving.

I kept myself too busy and too focused to feel much of anything.  It was numbing in its own way.  In between the numbness, I remember feeling terrified of failing.  As if it were life or death.  So I got myself busy working again on achieving to distract from the feelings.

In the end, it got me out of my parents' house and into the blue-ribbon college of our choice.  But once I was away at college, I relaxed a bunch and the depression (and anxiety) really started to emerge.  They've come and gone in many different cycles over the decades.  Only now am I getting to the root causes and finding peace with the feelings.
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