More than you ever think. I was always a depressed kid. Things in home weren’t always well. My parents frequently fought, separated until they agreed upon a mutual divorce. I frequently looked up about new ways die. Playing with the thought of ending my life. I was too much of a coward to end my life cause there was something my mom used to say about suicide: In my religion we believe in rebirth and someone who ends their life will have to go through the same things in the next life too. Maybe my depression has something to do with my belief on God. He doesn’t exist. Sometimes, I would muster enough courage to end my life and one of these times I ate a lot of dust and that screwed up my digestive system. I was affected with a worm infestation. If you know about a real little kid whom you suspect is depressed. Talk to him/her. Ask what’s bothering them.

Reoccurring evil thoughts can mean a lot of things. Not always pathological. For example, many evil or negative thoughts may be reality based in some atmospheres, thus not a sign of psychosis or ocd. However, if they are absurd and time comnsuming it might lend me to another answer. Often when a thought is reoccurring it may suggest that you do not have enough information or appropriate affective regulation to come to conclusions about this idea that feels okay, so you keep thinking about it. This can range in intensity from normal thinking things over to pathological obsessions. So really what matters is how often they reoccur, how much distress they create and at what level they interfere with daily functioning, as these factors are what makes it an mental illness.