How do you know if you are depressed?

Question

These last few weeks have been the worst of my life...my mum got diagnosed with heart failure,i got messed around by a girl who im still argueing with and my dog went missing...i just feel like **** and think my life cant get any worse.,...is this depression? How can you tell if you are depressed?

Answer 1

Ten Signs of Depression:

1. A sense of laziness
2. finding it difficult to laugh or smile.
3. Feeling tired a lot
4. negative words like (can't, no, not, never) seem to be in your thoughts.
5. feeling bored

Best thing to do:

1. exercise
2. better diet: avoid foods high in fat; increase foods in natural sugar like apples, canteloupes, oranges, honey, raisins, etc.
3. an extra hour of sleep per day (9 hours instead of 8)
4. massage therapy
5. if you can afford it, see a psychiatrist

Do NOT:

1. take medicines such as prozac or other psychiatric drugs, etc. unless you are feeling suicidal and are hallucinating.

Answer 2

Its natural for a person to feel the way you're feeling when everything wrong occurs at the same time or after another. I have been through that before, and I felt the same way. I try to see things in perspective. Show your mom more love, make sure she's going for treatment, taking her medicine and spend time with her. 2ndly, if you don't think you can work things out with the girl yet, maybe you should just break it off for a while and as for your dog, im really sorry I know that sucks. Depression comes in many forms, your's might be a minor depression but if you feel like it's gettin worse, speak to your best friend, or better yet, seek professional help. Time heals. I hope you feel better.

Answer 3

You are probably not depressed but have a lot of stuff going on. I would get rid of the "girlfriend". There is not much to do about your mom's heart failure. If she takes her medication and stops bad habits and adopts healthy ones, she will do better (I am a nurse). You can go look for the dog and put an ad in the paper. This is how life is with its ups and downs. Learn now how to deal with life......it will help you as you get older.

Answer 4

An online answer site may not be the best solution to this kind of problem. Try going to a counseler and asking for a free consultation for depression, in all liklihood he/she will be able to help you through this rough time. Or a priest/imam/etc. however will make you comfortable. Sometimes the best thing to do is just have a long drawn out talk with a sympathetic listener.

Answer 5

Depression is when you feel so hopeless and helpless that you can't drag yourself out of bed in the morning. You spend most of your time sleeping. Simple things like housework become an enormous task. You either lose your appetite or develop a large appetite eating junk food....

You feel like you are sinking into a black hole of endless despair and there is absolutely nothing you can do to dig your way out. The walls feel like they are closing in and you want to hide away from everyone. You start isolating yourself from family and friends eventually cutting everyone off. Your moods will be irritable and irrational. Crying hysterically is not uncommon....weight loss or weight gain of course will occur as a result of the appetite change. Your sleep cycles will remain messed up with alternating cycles of insomnia and oversleeping...

Your world will become a living hell if you have true clinical depression......

Answer 6

First of all, there is always someone who is worse off than you are. In this case, LOTS of people are.
Second, occupy your mind with developing a plan to solve your Mom's health problem, like getting her to a cardiologist. Then decide what you want to do about the girl (break up with her?). Then go door-to-door looking for your dog, and put up some posters in stores, etc.
When you're depressed, you are immobilized and do nothing. You need to get busy. Then you won't be depressed anymore.

Answer 7

It may be, depression. With all that your going through, I would be depressed to. Depression can last short or long. Give yourself time because your going through a lot right now..but after a while if your not capable of functioning normally on a everyday basis then get help. But of course your sad. you've had a hard month.

Answer 8

well its hard to sAu. right now i would just say you are sad not depressed. depression is difficult it clouds your whole way of thinking and you seem to at least be able to know there might be a problem so i would say you are just sad for the moment with all the things going on, you will get through it trust me, i am bi-polar which means i get depressed for no reason but i also have the over happy days.

Answer 9

Don't worry everything will get better. I suffer from depression and I am doing pretty bad myself. Maybe you should go see a doctor and see what they think. Because if you do have depression, you should take some medicine for it so you can get better. I hope everything works out for you. Good luck.

Answer 10

I know when I'm in the blue when i had a D mark on a Prelim Exam,,,,,or when I can't have time for my boyfriend because of dance rehearsals,,,,and when my Dad gives me a cold shoulder because I have failed him in some way...When i get depressed I try to look at the brighter side of life.....
Easy over there Ashley...You'll get through this! :)