Depression?

[HonestAbe]

How would you know if you were depressed?

 

[Dragonlord11_7]

To be completely honest, you would think *suicide*... Have little evergy... umm... "google" it. That should work And, why is this question being brought up? (In a not mean way)

 

[MOMTOCUTESTDOGEVER]

You feel tired a lot. You don't have a lot of motivation to do things that you used to do. You wonder why you should get out of bed in the morning. It could be a seasonal thing, too. Now that the days are getting shorter, this has a negative impact on some people.

 

[Miss Kelly]

When I'm feeling down (or depressed), I usually don't feel like doing anything meaningful. I want to sleep all day. I feel like everything I do is hopeless.

My depression sometimes also manifests itself as pain or sickness.

I hope you feel better soon.

 

[JadenLayne]

There are so many different ways of feeling depressed. Mine was combined with anxiety. Thinking every single pain I had was a heart attack. I was tired all the time and I still struggle some with that. Wanted to stay home and not go anywhere. If you think you may be depressed please get help!!!!! There are things out there that can help so much.

Hugs!

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

I have battled depression for many years and according to webmd.com, these are the main symptoms:

The two most significant symptoms of depression are:

• Sadness or hopelessness.
• Loss of interest in or pleasure from most daily activities.

Other symptoms include:

• Losing or gaining weight because of changes in appetite.
• Sleeping too much or not enough.
• Feeling restless and unable to sit still, or feeling that moving takes a great effort.
• Feeling tired all the time.
• Feeling unworthy or guilty without an obvious reason.
• Having problems concentrating, remembering, or making decisions.
• Thinking often about death or suicide.

These pretty much sums it up. Seek help because there are great meds that can help.

 

[OK!]

I agree--see about getting help ASAP. I was suffering from fairly severe depression for about a year--until this past May--in large part brought about by a combination of being downsized, breaking up with my boyfriend, and losing 10 members of my family in 9 months' time. I was barely functional; it was a miracle I was able to hold down the menial job I had at the time, 'cause God knows I didn't put any effort into it. I finally decided to go see someone in May and started on Wellbutrin, and it's like night and day now. I still have a menial job, but I don't dread going in every day, and I just find I'm able to deal with everyday life 1000% better than before.

Best of luck to you!!

 

[*Fantasia*]

I get depress sometimes. I feel like I don't want to be bothered with anyone. I just want to be alone. That I think that nothing seems to be going right or feel like you're lost in this world and you don't have no direction where your life is going. I just cry and pray hoping things would get better.

But I don't get depress where I stay depress and where I have to see a psychologist.

 

[fabshelly]

Get help. Even if it's just talking to someone. A professional is always the better choice. If you get one of the rare professionals who have no passion for their calling, who want to prescribe you something and get you out of his/her office quickly, KEEP LOOKING.

There are two major types of depression: typical, caused by problems with seratonin, and atypical, caused by what this lay person can best describe as a slacking-off of cells in the center of your brain that are supposed to regenerate more quickly than they do.

The former can be helped by light, therapy, exercise, and seratonin uptake inhibitors. In severe cases, mild electric shocks (not like in the movies, pal) can jumpstart your own seratonin uptake inhibitors so you don't have to deal with the side effects (sexual dysfunction, restless leg syndrome, others) of drugs.

I'm totally not anti-drug. In fact, atypical depression is treated beautifully (in me, anyway) by something called neramexane, by Forrest Pharmaceuticals. Hasn't been legalized in the US yet, so I'm outta luck until it is. I got to test it for two wonderful sunshiny years. Just knowing that life exists like that gives me the hope to slog through days like...well, like these right now. Other than easing it with exercise, sunlight and therapy, AD has **NO** medical treatment available to the people suffering from it.

Best of luck to you.

 

[mudnuri]

I went to the doctors with the following symptoms:

I didnt feel like "me"
Felt as though I had no 'calling'
every day tasks, I had to FORCE myself to do them

I could scream at the kids at the drop of a hat, for NO reason....

I couldnt care less about anyone either...

now, I'm on 10mg of lexapro, 300mg of wellbutrin, and I'm a new person...

Brandy

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Keep in mind, being depressed and having depression are two different things.

 

[wdw4us]

Several years ago I had depression and didn’t even know it. My husband knew something was wrong but didn’t know what. He called my Dr. and told her my symptoms. She told him to call her when he thought the time was right. A few days later I was driving my son to an appt. Crying for no apparent reason. I made it to where my husband works and just couldn’t function. He called the Dr. and we went right in. They ran some tests but it was just a combination of stress at home dealing with my fathers illness. I just spiraled down into blackness and didn’t even know what was wrong.

How did I snap out of it? Well honestly a couple of easy but necessary steps. I gave up trying to save my father. I started to go for long brisk walks every night with my husband and we “talked” during that time. It saved me. The exercise really made a difference and the alone time with my husband so I could release some of my problems brought me out of the funk.

It is hard to know you have depression but when I find myself getting a bit down, I work on getting back to “normal”. That list of items above is right on target. I didn’t have all of them but the “I’m so tired” and worthlessness was right up there.

I was lucky but think of depression as an illness and if it needs to be treated with medication, do it. If you had an illness such as an infection, you would not think twice about taking meds.

Good Luck!..

denise

 

[dcentity2000]

Everything I know on the subject is here:

http://www.seratis.net/page1/page8/page8.html

That resource should cover the different types of depressive illnesses and the treatments - psychotherapy, drug therapy and physical therapy - that you can undergo.



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