Signs you may have depression

Appointment, Start Therapy Today! Get the Support You Need! What are the signs of depression? Feelings of Unexplained Sadness. Have you stopped enjoying your hobbies, friends or activities?

Here are signs you may have depression: 1. Frequent feelings of sadness. Fluctuations in weight. Insomnia or excessive sleepiness. Loss of interest in daily activities.

You don’t care anymore about former hobbies, pastimes,. Appetite or weight changes.

Significant weight loss or weight gain—a change of more than. Unfortunately, this symptoms is one of the most common among depression sufferers. If this feeling is exacerbated during winter months, you might have seasonal depression. Decreased energy, fatigue , or feeling “slowed down”.

That condition involves not only changes in moo but also changes in sleep , energy, appetite, concentration. When you’re going through a tough time it’s normal to feel down for a while, emotions like sadness and grief help make us human. But if you’re feeling sad or miserable most of the time over a long period of time, you might have depression.

Take this self-test to help figure out whether you’re showing any of the warning signs of depression. Alcohol itself is a depressant and will often times intensify the daunting thoughts calling the shots. So then the alcoholic drinks more to alleviate the disheartening thoughts and thus finds themself in a dependent loophole.

You need to be extremely careful as pain and depression are interrelated. Depression may cause chronic pain and vice versa, the pain increases depression symptoms. That is why back, heart, joint pain, and headache treatment are so important. Associated feelings of worthlessness, self-hate, or inappropriate guilt may be riding shotgun.

Your baby blues last longer than weeks. The baby blues typically involve mood swings, crying for no reason, trouble sleeping, and feeling sad or anxious.

Trouble going to sleep or staying asleep, or sleeping too much. Fatigue or lack of energy. If you need to clean up, tidy and organize the house after you arrive home from an exhausting day of work before you even consider letting yourself rest, if you find yourself uncomfortable with slowness, stillness and fallow periods of time because of the uncomfortable thoughts and feelings you come into contact with when you do actually slow down, this could be a sign of high-functioning depression.

Like mania, depression can cause other symptoms as well, but here are seven of the key signs of depression from bipolar disorder: feeling sad or hopeless for long periods of time. When you ’re going through a tough time it’s normal to feel down for a while, emotions like sadness and grief help make us human. But if you ’re feeling sad or miserable most of the time over a long period of time, you might have depression.