What are the best steps a teenager could take to deal with their depression?

Kaytlin D: What are the best steps a teenager could take to deal with their depression?
I am doing a report on depression for my health class and I was wondering what would be the best steps a teenager could take for dealing with their depression and eventually curing it?

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Answer by TheImport
The best first step is to determine the cause for the depression (situational, chemical, or growing pains, for example). Therapy/Counseling is the natural next step. A teenager’s brain is still in active development and, for that very reason, medication treatment should be carefully considered – both due to virtually unknown nature of long-term side effects and because it is very challenging to predict how a developing brain will respond to psychotropics.