Symptoms for depression
- Low self esteem
- Insomnia
- Excessive sleep
- Withdrawal from activity
- Isolation
- Indecisiveness
- Boredom
- Agorophobia
- Substance abuse
- Panic attacks
- Fatigue
- Suicidal thoughts
- Apathy
- Appetite lack or increase
- Poor libido
- Feeling helpless
- Early morning insomnia
- Lack of response to good news
- Ongoing anxiety
- Inappropriate behaviour
- Negative outlook on life
- Silent and unresponsive around people
- “I do not care” attitude
- Easily upset or angered
- Inability to concentrate
- Listening to mood music persistently
- Self-destructive behaviour
Biochemical depression has certain (different) symptoms:
- You have been depressed for a long time despite changes in your life
- Talk therapy has little or no effect; psychological probing questions leave you as confused a teetotaller at a stag party and makes you even think that the therapist needs therapy.
- You do not react to good news
- You wake up early morning and cannot get back to sleep
- You cannot trace the onset of your depression to any event in your life
- Your moods may swing between depression and elation over a period of months in a regular rhythm (see: bipolar disorder, cyclothymia and manic depression)
- Heavy drinking makes your depression worse.
