DEPRESSION

Clinical Features:

Depressed mood is  a normal response to a loss. However, these feelings usually last for a few days, and they don't interfere much with our lives. If someone has these feelings without a reason or if they don't pass away in a short period after a loss, and/or when they are so bad that they interfere with life, we say that the person is suffering from depression.
Depression is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thought.


Signs and Symptoms of Depression
These are the common symptoms of depression. Most people with depression will not have all symptoms listed here, but for a diagnosis of depression a person should have at least five or six symptoms and should have lasted for more than two weeks.

• Feeling unhappy most of the time
• Losing interest in life and not enjoying anything.
• Finding it harder to make decisions, problem in remembering things.
• Being unable to cope with things that they used to.
• Feel utterly tired.
• Feel restless and agitated.
• Lose appetite and weight.(some people find they do the reverse and put on weight)
• Disturbed sleep
• Loss of interest in sex.
• Loss of self-esteem and self-confidence.
• Feel useless and inadequate and hopeless.
• Avoiding other people
• Feeling irritable
• Feel worse at a particular time each day, usually in the morning
• Thinking of Suicide