How do you know if you're suffering from depression?

Question

and I'm not talking about just the "sad" feeling, but not wanting to die either...but dreading everyday...

Answer 1

You feel like you're a failure, and no matter how well you do something you can't give yourself credit, you feel like you just got lucky... You can never expect good, and only think of the worst possible things...

Answer 2

Do you no longer enjoy activities or people that used to bring joy into your life?

Are you sleeping more/less than normal?

Are you eating more/less than normal?

Do you feel hopeless/helpless?

Do you feel alone in a room full of people?

Do you think that those people closest to you would be better off without you or that they wouldnt miss you if you were gone?

If you answered yes to many of these questions, I would say that its time to find a professional to talk to.  From there, the two of you can discuss options in how to proceed in your course of treatment.

Answer 3

That's it.  Life has defeated you and you are going through the motions waiting for a way to come along to get back to where you were.  You don't want anything else.  This wasn't supposed to be able to even happen to you, but it did!  Etc.

Simply Refuse to let the feeling stop you from doing something every day to participate in the world.  

Let your anger drive your motivation to start and pursue activities, meet new people, and live your life as it is.

Take a class, go to the beach, go to the library, take photographs of passing clouds, adopt a stray cat. whatever!  

This is the only permanent cure.  Think about it.

Do it.  

Answer 4

Depressions generally causes...

*severe sadness

**some thoughts of suicide

***withdrawl from family and friends/isolation

****lack of interest in things you once loved doing

*****hopelessness and haplessess

****feeling like you have no purpose in life

***mood swings

**weight loss or gain

*insomnia

just dreading everyday life sounds like you may be about to burn out. Take a break from everything until you feel like youre ready to face it all again. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the 'mondays' [hope youve seen office space]

Answer 5

A lot of people do not know if they have depression. Depression has become one of the major psychology problems in the developing countries. Depression can develop when we are living in a stress environment. Unfortunately, a lot of people do not realise that they have depression. Today, I would like to share with you the symptoms of depression.

“The movie is really not nice.” “The food is tasteless”. “It is not interesting at all, I would rather stay at home.” If the statement is familiar to you, you could be attacked by depression. A depressed person mood is usually dejected, gloomy and joyless. They feel the world is boring and meaningless. The world is colourless and the only colour in their mind is black and white.

Some of the depressed patients complaint they have low self-esteem and deep feelings of inadequacy. They have low confident level on themselves and towards other people. Am I good enough? Other people don’t like me! I’m not being welcome. These statements are common statements appear in their mind due to their low confident level.

When you realise that you frequently worries and frets, you might be attacked by depression. I have a lady patient who can go back home to check if she has turned of the tap, switched off the electricity, locked the door, closed the window for several times before they went out from their house. At first, she thought she was being forgetful but in reality, this was the initial symptoms to develop depression. Hence, early detection could prevent formation of depression.

Some participating in yahoo answer session, I realised that a lot of people had symptoms of self-derogatory during depression. They felt relief after hurting themselves. They were not sure the reasons they were doing so. If this problem is not rectified immediately, depression is developed and this would lead to suicidal case. Self-derogatory is a serious symptom that needs immediate attention.

A depressed patient engages in critical and judgmental attitude towards both self and others. They are not satisfied with the people next to them. No matter what they did, how well they try, the depressed patient always feels they are not right. My mother was undergone depression after my dad past away. When we bought her new mattress, she kept complaining the previous was soft and the new mattress was too hard and she couldn’t sleep at night. We brought her out for lunch, no matter which restaurant we went she felt the food was not delicious. The judgemental attitude would not be realised by them but people next to them would suffer from this personality.

Some of the depressed patient would be highly pessimistic and complaintive. During working with the depressed patients, I found that their world is full of sadness. They felt that the world was hopeless. They always labelled themselves with “bad luck”, “no hope” and other pessimistic words. Some of the aggressive patient would start to complaint. One of my friends received a letter from the patients with the statement, “You consultancy is not professional enough”. In fact, the patient did not even know the term professionalism in medical practices!

Experiences a great deal of guilt and regret is the last general symptoms of depression. Most of the suicidal cases are generally related to this feeling. These patients feel that nothing much they can do and the suicidal would be their last choice. When this idea becomes a core believe, they tend to suicide. When we realise this element appears among our friends, we have to remind them it is a symptom of depression.

As a psychotherapist, long term goals are set to brighten downcast mode, improve self-esteem and feeling of self-worth, decrease ruminative worry, enhance optimism, reduce feelings of guilt and remorse, reduce griping and complaining, facilitate positive interpersonal relationships and finally expand active problem solving, thereby decrease passive resignation.

Answer 6

Increase or decrease of appetite, tiredness, loneliness, etc.  Check with your DR.

Answer 7

I once knew a psychiatrist that told me that he can ask a person a question and then easily figure out if they were depressed or sick.

He asked his patient: It is a beautiful day outside, would you like to go for a walk in the park across the street ?

The sick patient would say "It is a lovely day and I would love to go for a walk, but I am in a lot of pain and  too sick right now  how about next time."

The depressed patient would say: No.

Answer 8

Many people don't know they are suffering from depression.  But, if you are suffering from depression, there is help.

Answer 9

your depressed when you don't see your self living for ever.  Get help and stop listening to heavy metal or heavy rock music, that **** is only for people that want to die.  the songs don't make you feel like a million bucks, it makes you feel like a sorry piece of ****, penny.

just call the help line on depression, or h**l, just call me, or write.  I will teach you the secret of getting the ultimate high, girl s*x.  It's the only high that god gave us on earth so take advantage.  

Good luck.

Answer 10

u will know

Answer 11

You'll know because all you think about is sadness. And it's really hard for you to feel happy. It's like you feel your stuck inside a world you hate. I mean it doesn't mean you wanna kill yourself though.

When you ever feel like breaking down, Or if you feel out of place sometimes.

And like if no one understood you.

Just if nothing feels alright to you.

Answer 12

sounds like depression to me

Answer 13

ok you just never want to wake up and you just hate the atmosphere around you. you also jus want to seclude yourself from everybody. if you are feeling these symptoms then yea you are suffering from depression.