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10 Signs of Depression, You Care About to Never Ignore

10 Signs of Depression, You Care About to Never Ignore                                                                       
10 Signs of Depression, You Care About to Never Ignore

What’s about depression?

Depression is a condition in which someone has a low mood and dislikes of activity. It can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, motivation, feelings, and sense of happiness. It may cause sadness, difficulty in thinking and concentration and a significant increase/decrease in desire for food and time spent sleeping, and people experiencing depression may have feelings of misery, hopelessness and, sometimes, suicidal thoughts. These feelings can either be for a short duration or long duration.

Are women more prone to depression than men?

Depression in women is very common. Actually, women are twice as likely to develop clinical depression as men. Up to one in four women is likely to have experience of major depression at some stage in life.

What can be the symptoms of depression?

1.Sadness

Feeling sad is a basic part of the depression, Sadness can be a difficult emotion to handle, not only due to the pain it causes but also because of the issues that caused the sadness. Sometimes, this state of sadness deepens, and this may be a sign that you are suffering from a form of depression.

2.Loss of interest

People suffering from clinical depression lose interest in hobbies, friends, reading or even watching TV, in activities in their life that they enjoyed doing in the past, and even food and sex. This is why the brain's pleasure circuits shut down or short out.

3.Restlessness

Agitation (a type of depression) can cause a person to experience feelings of uneasiness and anxiety. Some of the symptoms related to agitation include
• angry outbreaks
• clenching fists
• troublemaking behavior
• unnecessary talking
• wandering or shuffling feet
• tension

4.Hopelessness

According to some people, depression is a state as “living in a black hole” or having a feeling of something life-threatening, others feel lifeless, empty, and uninterested. Particularly men can feel angry and restless. If you experience depression, left untreated it can become a serious health condition. You can get better by understanding the cause of your depression and by knowing the different symptoms of depression, you can take the first steps to overcome the problem.

5.Sleeping problems

The relationship between sleep and depressive illness is difficult – depression may cause sleep problems and sleep problems may cause or add to depressive disorders. For some people, symptoms of depression occur with sleep problems. Sleep problems and depression may have the same risk factors and characteristics and the same treatment strategies are used for both conditions. Sleep problems are also connected with more severe depressive illness. Insomnia is very common among depressed patients.

6.Change in appetite

Some people with depression, have a loss of appetite, while for others, the amount you eat may increase ."Loss of appetite can be an early sign of depression or a warning for the worse depression. While some people can't stop eating when they are depressed," says Gary Kennedy, MD, director of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York. "A sudden change in body weight, gaining/losing, can be a sign of depression, especially in those who have other symptoms of depression or a history of depression."

7.Decreased energy

Depression and chronic fatigue syndrome
 are two conditions that can make someone feel extremely tired and low energy levels, even after a good night's rest. It's possible to have both conditions at the same time. It's also possible to mistake feelings of fatigue for depression.

8.Thoughts of death

People who are severely depressed can do suicide. Each year, about 30,000 people in the U.S. take their own lives, although the real number may be greater. Some suicides go unrecognized because they're off the record as accidents, drug overdoses, or shootings. 15%of depressed people whose depression remains untreated, kill themselves.
 According to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, warning signs of suicide;
• Talking about wanting to die or wanting to kill yourself
• Finding a way to kill yourself, such as searching online for methods or buying a gun
• Talking about feeling having no reason to live
• Talking about feeling trapped
• Talking about being a burden to others
• Increasing the use of alcohol or drugs
• Acting anxious or stressed
• Sleeping too little or too much
• Displaying extreme mood swipes

9.The difficulty of making decisions

The inability to make a decision is one of the most annoying symptoms of depression.
According to a study published in August 2011 in Cognitive Therapy and Research a depressed person has difficulty in making decisions. In a depressed state, strong emotions and incorrect predictions of the future negatively influence a decision. The doubtful thinking and sense of possible disappointment result in cloud rational thinking. Slowness and inaction affect decisions, lack of confidence,   inaccurate evaluation of personal resources (“I could never do that”),   hopelessness about the future.

10.Persistent physical symptoms

Depression 
may cause improper functioning of nerve cell systems or pathways that connect the brain areas that process emotional information. Some of these systems also process information for recognizing physical pain. Many experts say that depression can make people feel pain differently. Any kind of chronic pain may get worse.
• Headaches are very common. If you already had migraine headaches, they may worsen.
• Back pain
• Muscle aches and joint pain
• Chest pain. It can be an indication of serious heart, stomach, lung or other problems. But depression can add to the discomfort.
. Digestive problems. You might feel sick or nauseated. You might have diarrhea or become constipated .
10 Signs of Depression, You Care About to Never Ignore

How to cope with depression?

Hope, now you will never ignore these 10 signs of depression.
Talking to a doctor
The best way to deal with depression and fatigue is to speak with a doctor. Proper diagnosis and treatment are essential.
Exercising
Being active can reduce fatigue by helping better sleep. One meta-analysis found that doing over 20 minutes of low to reasonable intensity exercise can increase energy and reduce fatigue.


1 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing! People can watch out for these red flag if in case they feel like they have depression.

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