Symptoms for a Possible Cause of Severe Depression

Once these signs are evident in a patient, you must ask for a help of a doctor or a psychiatrist. These are the symptoms for a possible cause of severe depression.

- Depressed mood
- Disinterest in practically every activity
- Over the top sadness or fear
- Tendency to feel so empty
- Always tired
- Loses appetite
- Remarkable weight gain or loss
- Mental stress
- Loss of energy
- Haunting feelings of guilt
- Always feeling helpless
- Always feeling hopeless
- Always anxious
- Has a trouble focusing on an activity and a mindset
- Irrational when it comes to making decisions
- Slow in remembering ideas
- Thoughts of death and dying are always recurring
- Fantasies of suicide
- Suicide attempts
- Low self-esteem
- Personal hygiene is no longer given attention to
- Very much sensitive around noise
- Always feeling pain and paranoid about it, thinking that it could lead to something worse when it really is nothing.
- Fear of going insane
- Inability to differentiate the days and when exactly the action occurred

It is also possible that depression affects children and not just adults. Here are the signs showing that your child may be depressed.

- Low self-esteem
- Easily irritated
- Has difficulty sleeping
- Recurring nightmares
- Memory problems
- Slower pace when it comes to learning
- Changes in behavior such as isolation, withdrawal and aggression

For teenagers, an indicator of depression could be excessive consumption of alcohol and use of drugs. Worse, some teenagers even push the clinically depressed envelope further and put themselves at a great risk by eating disorders and self-harm such as mutilation.

For most people, these signs can mean the person is just a little blue or out of the weather and go on with their lives not really thinking much about it. However, if these signs go on for over a week, then it is advised that the possibly clinically depressed individual must see his doctor for a proper prognosis.

As the list shows, the symptoms of clinical depression may be harmful to the individual and could lead to other serious illnesses. We wouldn’t want our love ones to be like Van Gogh who pulled off his ear, Woolf who let herself drown or Plath who placed her head in the over, do we?

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