Physical Symptom of Depression: Depression and Emotional Pain? - Physical Too!:

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Do you find yourself often irritable or angry, trapped in confusion, misery, uncertainty, unconfident, and hopeless that you feel that your life has no direction or your life isn’t worth living?

These feelings are emotional symptoms of depression. It is not as simple as having a bad day that disappears quickly, but continues to stay and interfere in your daily life. Emotional symptoms co-exist with physical symptoms too.

Physical symptoms of depression are sometimes interpreted as symptoms of physical illness although they’re not, and it is necessary to be aware and know how to deal with it.

These changes in your body may include:

• Headaches, back pain and chest pain are common in people with depression.

• Digestive problems – sluggish movement of intestines that results to fullness of the stomach, dyspepsia and constipation may be experienced.

• Sleep disturbance – trouble going to sleep (insomia) or frequently waking up in the middle of the night, early-morning awakening and unable to sleep again or sometimes oversleeping.

• Exhaustion and fatigue- you easily get tired or cannot perform even the simplest task.

• Change in appetite or weight - loss of appetite resulting to weight loss or craves for sweet, rich foods and overeats therefore gains weight.

• Sexual dysfunction- women may have a problem such as irregular menstrual period and loss of interest in sex and erectile impotence for men.

If you experienced or have been experiencing these physical symptoms, discuss this with your doctor for proper treatment and teach you how to cope better.

Above all, help yourself. Think positively. Try to find out your special skills or talents and then develop them. Set up priorities and focus on your role in life. Depression affects not only you, but also those who love you.

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