Depression these days... I swear kids use this as a -blam!-ing defense mechanism for why they are weird, left out, socially awkward, extremely introverted, feel like they had their heart broken, and so forth. Yes, I said that (I'm sorry for those few who truly do have depression, because you do need the help). I just mean that there are soooooo many cases of depression in kids these days like is it just easier to pass the kid off as being depressed instead of being seeing that the kid is bored and kinda left out or whatever...like the parents would rather diagnose their kid as being depressed than as just being like -blam!- I raised an awkward emo kid that is really weird...but no they go far enough to say all these kids are quote on quote depressed and have a mental disorder instead of dealing with the real issues. I swear its just that these kids aren't built for this shit these days. These days, if a kid somewhat feels hurt, they curl up in a -blam!-ing ball and whine about it.
There is a lot I can say here, I'll keep it as short as I can though.
Depression has different amounts of severity and forms. You have mild and you have major types of it, when it comes to statistics it usually gets homogenized for the sake of simplicity. There are a lot of factors going into why the modern day life is having an impact on children, far more than it was 50 years ago. It's not just kids are little bitches these days, it's that these days are making them into weaker people than their predecessors/Parents.
More often than not, at least in the UK, the people diagnosed with a condition/illness [i]are[/i] ill. And there are certainly a -blam!- load more that aren't diagnosed. It's easy to see it as a malaise of bad parenting and that is a factor but there really is a lot more to it than I can put into one post.
It's not just down to overdiagnosis, there are a lot of factors and just one is the insane amount of pressure put on children and adolescents is what's contributing to it (School - Exams - Shitty job prospects - Shitty economy)