Can you list the symptoms of severe depression. Anybody who suffers from it. pls list them.?

Question

Also is there a book where i could understand about depression in deep?

Answer 1

1. Depression for Dummies
by Laura L. Smith, Charles H. Elliott

I love to recommend this book to people just being introduced to depression. It's a very easy read but it is chock full of information that you would find on the net and in any other depression reference book. If you would like to learn about symptoms, types of depression, management techniques, prescription medication etc. then this is the book for you.

2. The Freedom From Depression Workbook (Minirth Meier New Life Clinic Series)
by Les Carter, Frank, M.D. Minirth, Les, Ph.D. Carter, Frank B. Minirth

I love workbooks. I think all self-help and health & fitness books should be workbooks. When people want to make changes, they shouldn't just read a book from cover to cover. Exercises in workbooks really make you think about things and breakthroughs are much easier to come by once you've scribbled down a few thoughts in a workbook.

3.What to Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed
by Mitch Golant, Susan K. Golant

This book always makes my top lists, because living and loving someone who is depressed whether it is your parent, sibling, husband or wife, is extremely mentally exhausting. There are those days when you just want to say "snap out of it!". There are days that you just want to cry. There are days when you wish that you didn't have to deal with this at all. If this sounds familiar then this book is for you. Learn some coping techniques etc.

4. Hand-Me-Down Blues: How to Stop Depression from Spreading in Families
by Michael D., Ph.D. Yapko

This book isn't for everyone - but I think it is important enough to make the list for people who are raising children. Although there is a mixed bag of biological and environmental factors in having depression, there are things that you can do on both ends to stop this disorder from devastating an entire generation of your family members.

5. Listening to Prozac
by Peter D. Kramer

This book was written in 1993, but is a very important one to read, because if you ever find yourself suffering from clinical depression your physician and/or therapist will probably ask you if you want to take an antidepressant. This book is a good starting place in helping you develop your stance on medication. The book cites good examples and some startling (negative) examples of prescribing antidepressants like Prozac to patients.

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Answer 2

A major depressive episode may include these symptoms:

Persistent sad, anxious or "empty" mood
Feelings of hopelessness, pessimism
Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness
Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities, including sex
Decreased energy, fatigue, feeling "slowed down"
Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
Insomnia, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
Low appetite and 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 pain for which no other cause can be diagnosed.

Answer 3

Everyone is different, however, someone with severe depression would be noticible. The symptoms that are common in depression (i.e. feeling sad for more than a few months, lost interest in things you once enjoyed, normal life is disturbed) is amplified to the point that people who don't even know you would notice something is wrong. Severe depression will not go away on its own. Suicidal thoughts become stronger and plans that were once just thoughts become active. Your daily routine becomes too difficult and only a doctor and possible hospitalization can help at this point. Once depression becomes severe, I hope there is someone to guide this person to help because if untreated, irriversible damage or suicide is very likely. I hope this is a question of just wanting to know. If you are severely depressed, I beg you to tell your doctor. Don't hide anything. Sending you home with an antidepressant will not be enough. See a psychiatrist now. Don't wait.

Answer 4

Yes, their is wish. If you or any person you recognize is considering that suicide on a everyday foundation, cross to the emergency room. Depression is a bodily ailment, and it may be helped. Sometimes healing is wanted, many times it isn't. When it's wanted it's many times wanted for a lifestyles time, many times it isn't. Everyone is one-of-a-kind, however something is for certain, nobody has to suppose so horrible anymore. You cannot simply "snap out of it" to any extent further than a few you can still simply snap out of melanoma, melancholy demands to be dealt with via a general practitioner. Depression is an ailment with in a individual, equivalent to diabetes, a flu, melanoma, and many others., you must healing the individual, no longer the atmosphere they're in. Signs of melancholy are ideas of committing suicide, lack of sleep, napping an excessive amount of, lack of urge for food, brief concentration span, irritability, emotions of short of to withdraw from individuals or matters that they as soon as desired to be round, emotions of hopelessness, and loss of motivation. Their IS HOPE for even probably the most significantly depressed person, search the medication, it's in the market and it does paintings.

Answer 5

If you are suffering from deep depression maybe talking to the right people may be better than reading about it in books. I am listing a few web sites.

Get help.

Answer 6

My symptoms are:
Low self esteem
Suicidal thoughts and urges
Self-harming
Self-neglect (I stopped eating anything for about a week)
Unable to enjoy anything I used to
Struggle to think about the future
A feel of hoplessness and feeling the only way out is suicide

Some other symptoms others have:
Fire setting
Inappropriate sexual behaviour
Not wanting to be treated for depression

Answer 7

Symptoms of Depression
Apathy
Lethargy
Hopelessness
Sleep disturbance (too much or too little sleep)
Slowed physical movement - psycho-motor retardation
Slowed thinking/cognition
Impaired memory and/or concentration
Anhedonia - Loss of pleasure or interest in normally pleasurable events
Suicidal thinking
Self-blame
Inappropriate guilt
Recurrent thoughts of death
Avolition – lack of motivation
Irritability
Quick anger
Suspiciousness
Emotional turbulence
Morbid or suicidal thinking
Thought process is slowed down.
Indecision
Rumination
Willful Action and thoughts impaired or nonexistent.

Answer 8

Very erratic sleeping
Eating either lots or nothing
disassociation
suicidal thoughts
no energy
don't enjoy anything
random physical pains e.g. headache/ backache

Answer 9

here you go, an depression online tes:
http://www.psychcentral.com/depquiz.htm
thers also alot of articles about depression in this website!