How do you know you suffer from depression? What are your actual experiences and not just a list of symptoms..

Question

what was it like for you?

Answer 1

Everything that you look at seems dull and dingy. You don't look very far ahead when you drive, you get the urge to cry for no reason.  

Answer 2

i wanted to kill myself and hope no one would come and save me. i almost did it but i got scared on how it would hurt and what would happen

Answer 3

Actually, I realized thru therapy that I was "functioning w/depression"since an early age. It wasnt til I lost my mom to cancer that if manifested itself a lot more. It started with me being very moody. Even a change in my tone was there but I didnt hear it. My supervisor at work played back a telephone call i took and I didnt even know it was me. I started to "hide out" in my bedroom. I wouldnt answer the phone, didnt feel like being social at all. I would get very irritated and nasty towards almost anyone, even my children. Hearing them laugh even irritated me. I ate and ate and then didnt eat and didnt eat. Uumm what else? I hated my fiance to touch me. s*x wasnt anything I wanted at all. My anxiety was horrible.Crying and more crying at the drop of a hat. Yelling for no reason, just plain miserable. Thinking of what everyones life would be like without me. I lost myself completely. I embraced the dark hole that I was falling into.. It wasnt until my fiance called me one day and said that a friend of mine made a call to him about me. He wouldnt say who,but they were really worried about me and that he needed to do something. I developed OCD. I would get irritated and then start to clean and redo chores that were all ready done. It was a nightmare. He asked me to go seek help and I did. That began my journey. If any of this is going on with you,please call a doctor asap.. you will be better off... GOOD LUCK

Answer 4

I would sleep....ALOT. Every chance I got. I wasnt' interested in things that usually caught my attention. I would have this dreadful feeling for now reason.....I guess those would be "symptoms" but, not sure how else to explain it. Anyway, There are alot of things to it. It's not hard to decide if your fighting depression or not. But that's the right word for it is FIGHTING. You have to fight it and break outta the rut that your in. Be stronger than the disease....Good Luck. God Bless You.

-Cindy

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

Huh? Ummmm well i would feel just soooo lonely and cry myself to sleep and just feel soooooo WEIRD!