Symptoms of?

Question

What are the symptoms of depression

Answer 1

HI! Billy C! There are different types of depression or should I say different levels of severity. These can range from just feeling low to being suicidal and everything in between. Two types you may have heard of is Post Natal Depression and Clinical Depression - both of which can be devastating. Feelings of being useless, tired, isolated, fed up with life and see no point to it, lethargy - can be bothered to get up out of bed - no point!

The causes of depression can be both physical - an imbalance in the brain's chemistry - and external - loss of a loved one or job, sudden and dramatic changes to lifestyle eg those poor sods that lost everything after that hurricane hit the southern states in the US.

If you are asking this question to try and suss out if YOU have depression - then I suggest you go see your doc and tell him how you feel and if need be he will refer you to a specialist. Don't feel awkward about this as most people at some time in their lives have suffered from some form of depression. Good Luck

Answer 2

Sleeping more or sleeping less
Withdrawl form people and activities that you used to enjoy
Feelings of hopelessnes and sadnes that will not go away and are not a result of an isolated incident
Decreased or increased appetite
Decreased sexual drive

Each person is different and all, or some of these may be present-and even if you have 1 0r more of these symptoms it may not meam that you are depressed.

Answer 3

. basically the symptoms vary from person to person, but i know many common symptoms are:

tiredness (overwhelming)
sadness (persistent-lasting 3 weeks or more)
loss of interest in things you used to do (example : hanging out with friends, going places, etc.)
Sleep Problems---too much or too little sleep
Loss of Appetite---or the opposite, eating too much

those were some of the more common symptoms. i hope that helped.

Answer 4

Anhedonia is one of the defining symptoms of Depression. It is the inabliity to experiance pleasure from normal life events such as eating or social functions.

Answer 5

Constant feelings of emptiness and just sadness no hope or interest in things you used to love. It may effect your eating and your daily living, Also you may ache your shoulders and waist and back and arms maybe even your neck. Talk to your doctor it is a serious mental illness and can be fixed and or taken care of by just some therapy or medicine!

Answer 6

Sleeping a lot, thoughts of suicide, chronic fatigue, not interested in things you once enjoyed, lack of motivation, decrease in personal care and hygiene, feeling sad often and even for no peticular reason

Answer 7

The symptom is wanting to die. What's the cure? I don't know.

Answer 8

Loss of sleep/over sleeping
Loss of energy
Loss of doing things you once liked to do
Loss of libido
Hopelessness
Helplessness
Sad
Worried

Answer 9

Markedly-decreased mood, motivation, interest, energy levels

Answer 10

Not eating
does not want to be around people/family members