The Symptoms Of Depression

Depression is a medical disorder, which affects your thoughts, feelings, behaviour, and physical health.

According to Dr David Hoffman, it’s a state of mind that occurs in 10-20% of the world’s population in the course of a lifetime. So if you suffer from depression, you really are not alone.

Symptoms of depression can include (symptom depression ):

• Ongoing feelings of sadness or emptiness

• Crying and tearfulness

• Fatigue and loss of energy

• Sleep disturbances, insomnia or increased sleep

• Agitation and difficulty in concentrating or making decisions

• Feelings of helplessness, self-reproach, hopelessness, guilt, worthlessness, or excessive or inappropriate guilt

• Ongoing physical symptoms such as headache or digestive disorders that don’t respond to treatment

• Poor appetite with significant weight loss, or overeating with significant weight gain

• Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide. You can read more on coping with suicidal thoughts here…

Remember! You may not experience all of the symptoms that depression sufferers experience - many sufferers only suffer from a selection of the depression symptoms listed above.

But no matter which symptom depression throws at you, you can do something about it...

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