Support boosted for depressed adolescents
China DailyStudents participate in sandplay therapy in a psychological counseling room at a middle school in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, in October. YI FAN/FOR CHINA DAILY Emotional crisis Deng Xiaomei is a national Grade II psychological consultant and an expert who works with the Guangzhou Youth Cultural Palace's 12355-volunteer helpline for teenagers. When the emotional pressure on a child exceeds certain levels, he or she exhibits telltale signs, Deng told ThePaper.cn news outlet. "Chinese people may be relatively restrained and reserved, and they are somewhat discouraged from expressing emotions, especially negative emotions," said Li. "Some of my teenage patients think that their classmates won't like them if they admitted that they were depressed or that people would feel bad and wouldn't want to play with them, so they tend to hide their depression," said Li.
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Support boosted for depressed adolescents
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