Depressive symtoms and major depression are prevalent psychological problems in young adulthood.
Despite high prevalence of depressive symptoms in community-dwelling young adult, person experiencing depressive symptoms rarely use health care services, which increase their risk of developing major depression with psychosocial impairment later in life. Learning effective strategies to desensitize stressors and improving physical and psychological well-being while estrablidhing long-term healthy behavior are important development tasks for young adults to become well function mature adults.
Depression incidence was 7–51% higher in overweight and obese adults ages 20–59, but not in overweight and obese youth ages 19 or younger. Depression even in adolescents: obese adolescent females who were obese by young adulthood exhibited twice the odds of developing depression compared to females who were never obese (Frisco et al., 2013).