Monday, December 1, 2008

A Look At The Symptoms of Major Depression

By Jerremy Grey

Unlike many illnesses, people suffering from depression will display all the available symptoms of depression and not just one or two from the studies carried out by health care officials. Owing to the nature of depression, the symptoms are sometimes not readily visible especially by people close to the person suffering symptoms of depression.

You probably know someone who is depressed and are aware of the range of symptoms they may exhibit at any given time, even if they do not. Help is available long before the person suffering from depression exhibits every symptom and the sooner they receive help the better.

Sadness over an extended period of time and no interest in life around them are often the first signs of depression. Early signs such as these are still the best indicators of a mental health problem especially if they are noticed early.

This feeling of sadness, especially for yourself often culminates in feelings that there is nothing at all in your life to appreciate and look forward too. Pessimism is another symptom of depression where the sufferer is usually very negative about things and again the feeling of hopelessness comes in to mind.

Depressed individuals do not value themselves at all, are lethargic and suffer from terrible guilt. There is always the feeling that they do not deserve to be happy and this just increases the other symptoms they feel. Thus, the loss of self-worth, if that person feels like he or she isn't worthy of being happy or enjoying one's self then that's clear tell-tale symptom of depression.

Once you have the lost interest in anything that at one time made you happy then what do you do? Once this situation has occurred then it really does mean that something serious is happening.

This lack of enthusiasm often culminates in a complete lack of energy. A healthy mind creates a health body they say and although not always true, people with mental disorders are often found to be in poor physical condition.

If left unchecked, there will also be problems with the depressed persons ability to comprehend what is happening around them as their mind wanders and they have difficulty remaining focused on a subject. Lack of attention to what is being said on or around them; depressed individuals also have trouble recalling events that may be recent.

People who sleep too much can have as many problems as those who sleep to little and may be part of the cause of memory failure and concentration troubles. Noticing if a person's sleep pattern is disrupted can be as easy to detect as their eating habits when they start eating far more or less than usual. Left unchecked, the depression sufferer will feel unwell for regular headaches and stomach pains as well as other bodily pains; there may also be a morbid preoccupation with death, including their. - 16004

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