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There are degrees of depression from the mild to the severe or chronic.
It can be that you just feel aimless, helpless,
hopeless, anxious, and indecisive,
lack concentration or have poor self-esteem.
Your sleep may be disturbed you may feel tired all
the time and you have a sense of humour failure. These
feeling can last from a few minutes to weeks at a time.
Someone with major depression will be diagnosed professionally from
the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders or
DSM. Depression is categorised as a mood disorder and it includes
5 or more of the following symptoms that have been present
over a two week period, and have at least a depressed mood
or loss of pleasure amongst them.
The person may feel sad or empty, tearful,
guilty, reproachful, worthless, helpless,
suicidal. They may lose or gain weight, feel tired
and find they wake up early and can't get back to sleep. They may
be so agitated the doctor might check for parkinsons as well.
These shakes are associated with the lack of dopamine in the brain.
If someone is suicidal seeking help both medically and emotionally
is a must. See your GP and talk it through with the Samaritans.
If you have been to your GP and they have diagnosed you with depression,
but you do not want to take drugs for depression, then please give
me a call to talk through your options.
Note:
not finding things funny may be down to the lack of good humour
around or your changing sense of humour with age. Once I thought
I was becoming depressed, then I discovered it was other people
telling me which TV shows were really funny and I did not find them
so: it was their sense of humour not mine!!!
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