When it comes to depression, 13 percent of twelve- to seventeen-year-olds experience major depression in any one year, with depression affecting about 20 percent of adolescents by the time they become adults. That’s every fifth teen in your child’s class. We also find biblical figures who experienced depression. Look at how depressed the psalmists were in Psalms 32 and 88, how depressed Elijah was at the lowest point of his ministry (1 Kings 19:1–8), and how Job slipped into depression at various