Table 2 Symptoms and signs of depression in the pediatric age

- Irritability and/or depressed mood

- Loss of interest in everyday activities

- Psychomotor agitation and/or loss of energy

- Low concentration and indecision

- Insomnia and/or hypersomnia

- Loss and/or increase in body weight

- Loss of hopes and sense of powerlessness

- Feelings of guilt and low self-esteem

- Chronic somatic symptoms, which do not respond to common therapies (headache, addominalgia, constipation)

- Thoughts of death and/or suicide