Depression??

Question

What are the signs?

Answer 1

Depression is a serious yet common psychological condition that changes how you think and feel and also affects your social behavior and sense of physical well-being. We have all felt sad at one time or another, but that is not depression. Sometimes we feel tired from working hard, or discouraged when faced with serious problems. This too, is not depression. These feelings usually pass within a few days or weeks, once we adjust to the stress. If these feelings linger, intensify and begin to interfere with work, school or family responsibilities, then it may be depression.

Key Symptoms -
Any of the following symptoms that persist for most of the day, nearly every day, for at least 2 consecutive weeks:

· Persistent feelings of sadness or "emptiness"

· Sense of hopelessness, worthlessness, and guilt

· Inability to enjoy ordinary pleasurable activities, including sex

· Noticeable change of appetite, possibly accompanied by significant weight loss or weight gain

· Shifts in sleeping patterns, such as insomnia or sleeping too much

· Difficulty concentrating, persistent irritability, excessive crying

· Preoccupation with thoughts of death or suicide

· Decreased energy, fatigue

· Persistent aches and pains

Answer 2

As a mental health practitioner with 20+ years experience, now retired, I can tell you that one of the most determining factors of what the signs are is your age. People differ in their depressive signs from when they are kids, to adolescence, to adulthood, to old age, so, your age has a LOT to do with it. Once you have that factor down, go to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders and look under the section entitled Affective Disorders, and you can read in FULL detail the exact symptoms that are looked at, as per your age, to diagnose whether you are depressed, and how depressed you may be, and whether you are having a cyclical depression or more simply, but just as difficult, simple depression. Consider your age and then go to a good library or bookstore and see what you can find. You may even be able to find that diagnostic manual on-line, and learn it from there. All psychiatric diagnoses come from that manual. God Bless you.

Answer 3

Noticeable change of appetite, with either significant weight loss not attributable to dieting or weight gain.
Noticeable change in sleeping patterns, such as fitful sleep, inability to sleep, early morning awakening, or sleeping too much.
Loss of interest and pleasure in activities formerly enjoyed.
Loss of energy, fatigue.
Feelings of worthlessness.
Persistent feelings of hopelessness.
Feelings of inappropriate guilt.
Inability to concentrate or think, indecisiveness.
Recurring thoughts of death or suicide, wishing to die, or attempting suicide. (Note: People suffering this symptom should receive treatment immediately!)
Melancholia (defined as overwhelming feelings of sadness and grief), accompanied by waking at least two hours earlier than normal in the morning, feeling more depressed in the morning, and moving significantly more slowly.
Disturbed thinking, a symptom developed by some severely depressed persons. For example, severely depressed people sometimes have beliefs not based in reality about physical disease, sinfulness, or poverty.
Physical symptoms, such as headaches or stomachaches.

Answer 4

anger
sadness
crying
cutting
emotional barrier
dulled eyes
little talking or laughing
extremely emotional (go from angry to crying at the drop of a hat)
loss of appetite
pushing away friends and family
lack of intrest in activities that used to produce joy

if a friend of yours is depressed, just remember that they will not "snap out of it". depression is an illness. be kind to them and stay a good friend. being a good friend sometimes means letting their parents or a guidance counselor know that they are depressed. you friend will hate you for it now, but they will thank you eventually.

if YOU are depressed, get help. it will hurt, but there is no way you can get through it without friends. you need to keep your friends close. if you can't get them to form a support group on your own, talk to them about your depression. my friend who is majorly depressed refuses to talk to me, and it kills me that she won't. talk to a guidance counselor if you can't talk to your friends or parents. chances are good that they want to help you as much as you need their help.

above all, don't be alone. alone is where depressed people are most afraid. stay by your friends and don't let them sink farther into the dark hole that they have dug for themselves.

Answer 5

some signs are lack of energy, loss of desire to do things you would usually do, persistant sadness or melancholy. you may have periods of happiness, but it always returns to the feeling that everything is hopeless. i pray you dont have it.
god bless

Answer 6

HEre is a quiz that will help you determine if you are suffering from depression.

Answer 7

depression-sreening.org has the best test

Answer 8

you want do die..... you always crave to sleep... you view life as pointless and you think you should just die to relive yourself of everything. if your depressed id talk to you, my aim name is Johnnymushio

im in the same boat as you

Answer 9

loss of appetiees
tired
doing nothing
sad
nelect peoples