Girls who complain about their problems at greater risk of developing anxiety and dep

[AGDee]

As happens frequently, they are assuming a cause-effect relationship when it is probably a correlation. Perhaps the girls who are co-ruminating the most have the worst/most serious problems and issues which are going to cause depression/anxiety. A kid with relatively no stressors is not likely to become anxious and depressed and wouldn't have much to co-ruminate about. I do agree that having kids involved in "healthy" activities helps them cope. We frequently had kids in treatment who we tried to get involved in a lot of activities because it helped them get away from their psycho families who were causing them stress.

[AlwaysSAI]

This is just a thought....

But, when I was in middle school, I would say 6th grade, I fell into a deep depressioin. Mainly because I didn't have any friends, but that also means that I had no one to co-ruminate with.

Co-ruminating probably plays a very large role but where the family histories of the case students taken into any kind of consideration? Did they only select women and men who had no family history of mental illness?

[SOPi_Jawbreaker]

Originally Posted by AGDee

As happens frequently, they are assuming a cause-effect relationship when it is probably a correlation. Perhaps the girls who are co-ruminating the most have the worst/most serious problems and issues which are going to cause depression/anxiety. A kid with relatively no stressors is not likely to become anxious and depressed and wouldn't have much to co-ruminate about. I do agree that having kids involved in "healthy" activities helps them cope. We frequently had kids in treatment who we tried to get involved in a lot of activities because it helped them get away from their psycho families who were causing them stress.

Or it could be that those girls that are depressed/anxious have a more negative/pessimistic personality and therefore complain more. Whereas, someone who is always optomistic is probably not going to do much complaining.