Depression lethargy

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Why does depression Make Me So Tired?

Is extreme fatigue a symptom of depression? What are the debilitating effects of depression? It causes a significant decrease in energy that affects your performance in most tasks. You feel tired or physically “run-down” all the time. Lethargy is both physical and mental when you are depressed.

Mental lethargy is experienced as a sense of on-going drowsiness. And while depression doesn’t cause chronic fatigue syndrome, it can certainly cause increased fatigue. Many people with chronic fatigue syndrome have sleep disorders , such as insomnia or sleep apnea.

These conditions often make fatigue worse because they prevent people from getting a good night’s rest. This lack of energy can lead to mental, emotional, and physical fatigue that’s difficult to treat. In fact, according to clinical psychologist Shoshana Bennett, Ph. “it’s unusual for fatigue not to be one of the symptoms of depression.

This is why fatigue is so destructive. Some of the symptoms of depression include an empty or sad moo sleeping too much or not sleeping enough, over- or under-eating, thoughts of suicide or suicide attempts and lethargy. There are different ways lethargy can show itself. Sleepiness Likely the most basic cause of lethargy is simply. One of the most common residual symptoms of a partially resolved depression is fatigue.

Broadly define symptoms of fatigue can affect physical, cognitive, and emotional function, impair school and work performance, disturb social and family relationships, and increase healthcare utilization. Talk to your doctor Antidepressants are often a cause of fatigue related to depression. The lack of energy ( lethargy ) associated with tiredness can sometimes cause difficulty with normal daily activities, leading to problems with attentiveness and concentration.

This mostly is true of tricyclic antidepressants like Elavil (amitriptyline) and Tofranil (imipramine), which doctors don't often prescribe any more. Fatigue is one of them. But even the newer classes of antidepressants —selective serotonin reuptake. Is your patient experiencing unexplained anxiety and confusion? Review the symptoms here.

Find out more about other signs and symptoms to guide you to a clear diagnosis.

For example, muscles fatigue if the are called upon to repetitively work for an extended period. Most of the causes of tiredness are also associated with fatigue. The study surveyed 9people with depression , 6of whom had significant fatigue. The people with fatigue had greater severity of depression , pain, sleep problems, and anxiety.

Researchers found people who are depressed are more than four times as likely to develop unexplained fatigue,. I’ve had friends tell me they’ve felt the extreme fatigue of depression long after they began feeling better, even when their depression was in remission. At the time I didn’t think much of this because I was in the midst of a many-years-long, serious depressive episode and couldn’t really imagine the depression being “in remission. I somehow was always expecting a cure for what ailed me and often berated myself for falling back into old patterns, back sliding into depression and somehow never made the connection that my symptoms are my depression , not neccessarily as a result of my depression.

My most difficult symptom is lethargy and finding that spark to get going. From a study of ECA subjects, it has been estimated that the presence of fatigue increases the chances of developing depression over the next year by 2. Excess physical activity. Lack of physical activity.

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