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If you are depressed at the moment some of the following symptoms may sound familiar:
You feel miserable and sad.
You feel exhausted a lot of the time with no energy .
You feel as if even the smallest tasks are sometimes impossible.
You seldom enjoy the things that you used to enjoy-you may be off sex or food or may 'comfort eat' to excess.
You feel very anxious sometimes.
You don't want to see people or are scared to be left alone. Social activity may feel hard or impossible.
You find it difficult to think clearly.
You feel like a failure and/or feel guilty a lot of the time.
You feel a burden to others.
You sometimes feel that life isn't worth living.
You can see no future. There is a loss of hope. You feel all you've ever done is make mistakes and that's all that you ever will do.
You feel irritable or angry more than usual.
You feel you have no confidence.
You spend a lot of time thinking about what has gone wrong, what will go wrong or what is wrong about yourself as a person. You may also feel guilty sometimes about being critical of others (or even thinking critically about them).
You feel that life is unfair.
You have difficulty sleeping or wake up very early in the morning and can't sleep again. You seem to dream all night long and sometimes have disturbing dreams.
You feel that life has/is 'passing you by.'
You may have physical aches and pains which appear to have no physical cause, such as back pain.
It's this wealth of depression symptoms, and the broad scope that confuses many people as to what depression actually is. Explanations rarely cover all the symptoms, and everybody's experience is different.
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When you get happy you are REALLy happy and when you get sad you are REALLY sad, more sad than normal.
Do you think positive or negative.
Seek help from a professional. If you dont have the money or insurance to seek professional help, there are free clinics that work pretty darn good.
If you feel sad and like life is not worth living. If you are feeling this way, please talk to someone.
If you feel worn out constantly, suicidal thoughts/attempts, feel down a lot, and you always think that things couldn't get worse.
If you get called emo a few times.
When it won't go away very easily, and you don't see any light at the end of the tunnel. And it makes your relationships suffer, maybe your job suffers as well.
let me see.when you don't want to do anything, planning suicide, don't want to get out of bed, feel like crying all the time, feel useless and powerless and miserable ALL THE TIME and when that's going for more that a couple of months with no obvious or serious reason, then I think you might wanna go see a professional about it
when you have thoughts of suicide, mope around all the time and just feel sad. see a psychiatrist.
you just answered your own question sweetie..first.. before you seek paharaceutical help.. look within and try to identify why you feel this way..if you can. and eliminate that (like a bad relatiohship or something) you will be free..in 43 years I've been around and around this bush many times.. There is better, there is sweeter and there is DEFINETLY healthier!
my sister suffered from depression - she would sleep a lot, have no interest in anything or anybody, and no energy to get up and participate in life. she eventually got treatment and improved greatly.
Been there.
Here a list of symptoms from NNIMH http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/depressionmenu.cfm
It is not always easy to recognize them in yourself. My spouse diagnosed me when I slipped into one. If you're asking the question, you must have a reason or feeling that you are in one. Do you have someone you love or trust to talk to?
Persistent sad, anxious, or "empty" mood
Feelings of hopelessness, pessimism
Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness
Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed, including sex
Decreased energy, fatigue, being "slowed down"
Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
Insomnia, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
Appetite and/or weight loss or overeating and weight gain
Thoughts of death or suicide; suicide attempts
Restlessness, irritability
Persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain
if you r like sad most of the time or you cant let go of some thing and your dwelling on some thing that hurt you or realy makes you question it bac and forth then you have a depressive veiw of things that keep you sad about it ,thats depression ,your focal point of thought brings you down constantly, thats depression
It's natural to feel down at times, but depression stops you from functioning in a normal way day to day. It effects everybody in different ways and in varying degrees. Before I was on medication, I would find myself crying for no particular reason, or at least wanting to. When my depression was really bad, I would want to lay in bed all day, feeling so sad that I no interest in doing anything.
when u think u have no choice,can not get u want,think life is useless, not worth living,may have suicidal tendicies
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If you feel sad all the time no matter what good things happin to you. Then you are suffering from depression
the symptoms listed above are true -- like suicidal thoughts, feelings of hopelessness etc. but sometimes, there are a bunch of people who say "im going to kill myself" -- some of them are not really depressed, just lacked attention. a depressed person does not usually show these symptoms, he/she keeps to herself -- most of all, you will not see that a person is depressed because they lock themselves up most of the time -- they stop going out with friends, they no longer enjoy the things they usually enjoy.
there are other symptoms of depression too. both my father and i were prone to depression. he expressed his with anger and violence. later on he became a drug dependent and drove the family apart. he was (and still is) a great father. when i saw him so angry, i never understood why he changed -- why he started taking drugs when he knew they were bad -- i found the reason why later on when i experienced the same thing myself.
i've had problems emotionally since i was a child, and i had to see a child therapist to help me through it. but when i was 18, another episode was triggered. that's when i fully understood what depression REALLY is -- and why they call it "depression" -- it really did felt like a "sunken feeling", i felt like i was living in a manhole. it is something that you don't want to feel, but it PULLS YOU DOWN -- i felt like i was in chains, living underground. the whole time i felt like "i will never be free again" -- and i guess that was the feeling of hopelessness. i tried to find out why i felt that way -- why did i feel DOWN? why did i feel like i will never be free again and there seemed to be no explanations that i could find. during my ordeal, i was telling myself, "i wish there is someting that i could eat or drink and make all these feelings go away" -- and that's probably how my father started taking drugs. he was depressed, he wanted to be happy again but could not find a way out. it's a state that i didn't want to be in, but i was just there for some reason. that's what depression (in my opinion) felt like.
i asked help from a school counselor who happened to specialize in that area and she helped me through it. she taught me ways on how i can handle and manage around it. it's something that you have to fight! since then, i haven't suffered any episodes yet (knock on wood). i learned to live with it, or work around it without any use of medications. medications does not cure depression, it just helps alleviate it.
as i grew older and learned more things about depression by reading and i learned how to work around it, my grades were high. i never realized that im not so dumb at all. i constantly failed when i was younger, the whole time i thought i was not smart at all. but i later on realized that i AM smart -- especially in math, chemistry and physics -- i had perfect scores in them, i was exempted from the finals. this is also something i inherited from my father -- the superior IQ when it comes to numbers. so now, i understand my father's situation more, and we became close because of something we both shared.
if you feel depressed, you would know you are depressed. ;)
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