Why am i feeling this way...is it depression??

Question

1)scared and feel unsafe

2)feel as if nothing to life for

3)constantly think about death

4)difficulty concentrating

5)cramps in legs even after going up one flight of stairs

6)incredibly sad once it gets darker.

7)sometimes oversleep on purpose when i wakeup

8)hate going to sleep (insomnia)

9)feel as if everyone hates me

10)have no energy even to perform the simplest task like brushing teeth and showering.

11)the thought of doing something active makes me very sad

12)sometimes just want to sit all day and stare into space...don't blink for minutes.

13)wish people would leave me alone sometimes

if you are going through depression like me, is this how you feel?

Answer 1

Im going through depression but that isnt how i feel.

Answer 2

These are classic symptoms of depression. Luckily, you do not have to suffer because there are many types of medicines out there to help you overcome this disorder. Go to a doctor and tell him/her your symptoms. Get yourself some medicine and also try exercising to get those endorphins flowing in your brain. You might not have the energy to exercise until the medicine has kicked in but do try your best. It really helps. Depression is a terrible disorder to deal with. It is not your fault you are depressed. Just do what you need to do to get better. Good Luck!

Answer 3

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.

The symptoms confirm is depression.

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Answer 4

It sounds like depression - here is a link to take a depression screening test. If your score indicates that you are depressed i would suggest that you see a doctor as soon as possible. You don't have to go through life feeling this way.

http://www.med.nyu.edu/psych/screens/dep...

Answer 5

you have a purpose in life you just don't know  it yet you have to find and you'll will be happier than you've ever been try making this world a better place like helping third world countries like Haiti

Answer 6

Your just nuts, but thats ok, plenty of fruit cakes out there