I have had a number of life changing events happen in a very short time, like in a 3 week period. I have been very very stressed out but even tho I am still stressed, I just feel very different, not my self.
I was talking to my sister in law about it and she said she thinks I am or maybe going into depression.
I thought most people that suffered from depression have thougths of killing themselves–which has not even crossed my mind, that wouldn’t solve anything.
After reading all the post, I have had several of the signs listed for a while now, I just never considered it to be depression.
I have had trouble sleeping for a long time and feeling tired all threw the day. I know I have lost interest in a number of things. Where I used to love to go out–just to the store even, I know dread the thought of leaving the house, I would rather be home. I also don’t like to answer the phone when someone calls, I just don’t want to talk, nothing personal to the person calling, I just want to be left alone–all this has been going on for a long time.
Recently, I do feel very sad and hopeless. Things need done but they don’t get done and I am forgetting things. I feel like crying 90% of the time.
I do have medical problems that get me,what i call down, at times, but with recent events, everything just seems worse.
Oh and I have also lost about 10lbs int eh last few weeks and it is not from dieting, I just don’t feel like eating. Everytime I try, I just choke a few bites down.
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It’s important to remember being depressed isn’t necessarily the same as having depression. In either case, talking to a mental health professional will help you overcome your feelings.
This is the criteria needed to diagnose Major Depressive Disorder:
1. For a major depressive episode a person must have experienced at least five of the nine symptoms below for the same two weeks or more, for most of the time almost every day, and this is a change from his/her prior level of functioning. One of the symptoms must be either (a) depressed mood, or (b) loss of interest.
1. Depressed mood. For children and adolescents, this may be irritable mood.
2. A significantly reduced level of interest or pleasure in most or all activities.
3. A considerable loss or gain of weight (e.g., 5% or more change of weight in a month when not dieting). This may also be an increase or decrease in appetite. For children, they may not gain an expected amount of weight.
4. Difficulty falling or staying asleep (insomnia), or sleeping more than usual (hypersomnia).
5. Behavior that is agitated or slowed down. Others should be able to observe this.
6. Feeling fatigued, or diminished energy.
7. Thoughts of worthlessness or extreme guilt (not about being ill).
8. Ability to think, concentrate, or make decisions is reduced.
9. Frequent thoughts of death or suicide (with or without a specific plan), or attempt of suicide.
2. The persons’ symptoms do not indicate a mixed episode.
3. The person’s symptoms are a cause of great distress or difficulty in functioning at home, work, or other important areas.
4. The person’s symptoms are not caused by substance use (e.g., alcohol, drugs, medication), or a medical disorder.
5. The person’s symptoms are not due to normal grief or bereavement over the death of a loved one, they continue for more than two months, or they include great difficulty in functioning, frequent thoughts of worthlessness, thoughts of suicide, symptoms that are psychotic, or behavior that is slowed down (psychomotor retardation).
(And you don’t necessarily have to have thoughts of suicide to have depression. Most people with depression don’t, in fact. This, if it happens, is also more likely to occur after depression has progressed over a long period of time).