how does depression feel?

Question

how do you know if you are in depression?

Answer 1

Usually overal sadness and hopelessness. There are several levels of intensity. Major depression is haracterized by inability to function, when you just can't gather enough strength to get out of bed in the morning. It will disturb sleeping habits and apetite. But there is also just mild depression, where you don't see any color in life, you cant enjoy the things you used to, you have no desire to do anything,etc, but you still go through the motions. You just know you're not enjoying life. It may also manifest as rage.
Hope it helps.

Answer 2

Here is an inside look into the mind of a person with clinical depression:

-you wake up everyday feeling tired, so tired that it's hard to get out of bed
-during the day you feel like you're walking in slow motion, and you may seem apathetic to everything and anything
-oversleeping, or not sleeping enough
-weight loss or weight gain (sometimes Depression makes you want to eat more, sometimes it may seem you have absolutely no interest in eating anything at all, incl. favorite foods
-crying (incessantly). you have thoughts like : "i'm not good at anything". "what's the point of living if i will never be happy?" "Will this sadness ever go away?"

- you feel empty, tired, and hopeless. bottom line.

if u have any of these symptoms for longer than 2 weeks, you may have depression. clinical depression is a whole lot different than just feeling "sad". i mean, who doesn't get sad every once in a while? it's part of being human. however, if you have clinical depression the sadness is unbearable and severe....leading to many problems in social life, family life, the work/school life, and just about everything else......

Answer 3

Depression may refer to:

Clinical depression, a medical condition identified by clusters of symptoms such as markedly-decreased mood, motivation, interest, energy levels, etc.
Depression (mood), an everyday term for a sad or low mood or the loss of pleasure.
Depression (geology), a sunken geological formation.
Depression (economics), a longer-lasting and more severe economic downturn than a recession.
The Great Depression, a severe economic recession in the 1930s.
Depression (meteorology), an area of low atmospheric pressure associated with cyclones and weather fronts.
Depression (physiology), a lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, contrasted to elevation.

Clinical depression is a state of sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of daily living. Although a low mood or state of dejection that does not affect functioning is often referred to as depression, clinical depression is a medical diagnosis and is different from the everyday meaning of "being depressed".

Depression, or a depressed mood, may in everyday English refer to a state of melancholia, unhappiness or sadness, or to a relatively minor downturn in mood that may last only a few hours or days. This is quite distinct from the medical diagnosis of clinical depression. However, if depressed mood lasts at least two weeks, and is accompanied by other symptoms that interfere with daily living, it may be seen as a symptom of clinical depression, dysthymia or some other diagnosable mental illness, or alternatively as sub-syndromal depression.

In the field of psychiatry, the word depression can also have this meaning of low mood but more specifically refers to a mental illness when it has reached a severity and duration to warrant a diagnosis, whether there is an obvious situational cause or not; see Clinical depression. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) states that a depressed mood is often reported as being: "... depressed, sad, hopeless, discouraged, or 'down in the dumps'." In a clinical setting, a depressed mood can be something a patient reports (a symptom), or something a clinician observes (a sign), or both.

A depressed mood is generally situational and reactive, and associated with grief, loss, or a major social transition. A change of residence, marriage, divorce, the break-up of a significant relationship, graduation, or job loss are all examples of instances that might trigger a depressed mood.

Answer 4

You don't want to do anything. All you want to do is sleep. You don't want to get out of bed. You could care less about anything. You stop talking to people, you stop doing things. You hide from everyone even close friends and family. My best friend is going through this right now. Some even think of suicide like she did, or do it(she tried but her niece walked in so she didn't). You have no energy. Like I said you want to do nothing but hide and be alone. I was a little depressed after I donated my kidney to my husband and the doctor lacerated my spleen and had to remove it and I had complications after it and I still do and because I couldn't do much of anything I got depressed. I have 2 children and a husband that I was suppose to so things for and I couldn't do awhole lot. I've gotton better and i'm not on anything anymore. I hope that this helps.

Answer 5

Depression can be different in people. Some people have a feeling they are not worthy living, they don't feel good about themselves for a long period of times. Maybe they are tired, sad or have mood swings. I think only a Doctor can determine if somebody is suffering from depression. Depression comes from an under laying problem.

Answer 6

There are a number of symptoms that would indicate you may have depression. There are some websites you can go on which will give you a questionnaire that can indicate whether depression is likely. You can print off the info and take it to the doctor.

For a diagnosis, you really need to see a doctor.

(I found the website below helpful)

Answer 7

When you lose interest in everything around you. When getting out of bed to brush your teeth is too much trouble. When you finally make out a check for a bill you find that walking out your door to the mailbox at the curb is going to take another day cause its too much effort. Bills unpaid, no energy, no interest.

Answer 8

like there is no hope, you have no joy in things you once did. you feel sad and hopeless and may cry a lot. you may also be very tired, irritable, get a lot of headaches. not sure what else but that's some of it.

Answer 9

it feels like you dont want to face another day, you feel lonely, sad, angry. like everything u do is a failure and that u are never good enough. that people dont like you and they have every reason not to like u coz ur a f*cked up piece of sh*t. that it hurts to breathe.

Answer 10

your depressed all the time......can't sleep or sleep to much,it effects all different ways of your life.......everone is different...........i take prosac........and it helps me.......and i didn't think i was depressed at all.