Childhood melancholy is different from the everyday that most kids get as they develop. The fact that a child feels woebegone, solitary, or irritable does not mean he or she has childhood dejection. Childhood despondence is sedulous woebegoneness. When it occurs, the child feels alone, hopeless, helpless, and nugatory. When this type of woefulness is unending, it disrupts every component of the child life. It interferes with the child daily activities, schoolwork, and peer relationships. It can additionally affect the life of each family member. Not all children have all of these symptoms. In fact, most will exhibit different symptoms at different times and in different settings. Albeit some children may perpetuate to function plausibly well in structured environments, most kids with paramount melancholy will suffer a conspicuous transmutation in convivial activities, loss of interest in school and poor academic performance, or a vicissitude in appearance. Children may withal commence utilizing drugs or alcohol, especially if they are over age 12. Albeit relatively recherche in youths under 12, adolescent children do endeavor suicide -- and may do so impulsively when they are upset or irate. Girls are more liable to endeavor suicide, but boys are more liable to authentically kill themselves when they make an endeavor. Children with a family history of violence, alcohol abuse, or physical or sexual abuse are at more preponderant risk for suicide, as are those with depressive symptoms.