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Q: what are signs you have clinical depression?
I’ve been feeling horrible since last month and it’s never stopping. people say that depression is a problem when it doesn’t go away but there’s supposed to be some terrible thing happening that makes you depressed right? But nothing happened so i have no idea why i’m feeling like that.

yeah. that’s the explanation. what are signs of clinical depression?

A: You have already had a few answers about the signs of clinical depression so I will not write them again, however they are not a complete list so I might suggest you do a little internet research as there are quizzes that u can answer that will tell you whether or not you appear to be suffering from this illnes, it will also show you where to get help and advise you on what to do next. I do strongly suggest you visit ur GP. And about having no major cause for it, well there doesn’t have to be one, often this happens to people with no apparent explanantion. Try the beyond blue website, I have included the web address for you in sources. Hope this sheds some light for you

Q: What are the signs of Clinical Depression?
A friend of mine insists that she has Clinical Depression. What are the signs/symptoms of this mental health disease?

A: According to the APA, (American Psychiatric Institute)Clinical depression is also known as major depression, unipolar depression, unipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder.

Signs and symptoms: all-encompassing low mood
low self-esteem
loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyed activities
it is a disabling condition that affects work, family and school life, sleeping and eating habits, and general health.

In the US, 3.4% w/major depression succeed in committing suicide

There is no lab test, per se, it is diagnosed based on what the patient tells the doctor and/or behavior reported by friends and family. The most common time is ages 30-40 and peaks at ages 40-50.

Q: what are the clinical signs of depression?
i have low energy, hard time focusing, no interest in being social, and i seem to cry at everything these days.
this always seems to happen in the summer and mid winter.

A: Can’t sleep or you sleep too much
Can’t concentrate or find that previously easy tasks are difficult
Feeling hopeless and helpless
Can’t control negative thoughts, no matter how hard you try
More irritable & short tempered than usual
Having thoughts that Life is not worth living

Q: What are some warning signs of clinical depression?
In a middle-aged woman? Not for me (I’m a teenager) but for an adult in my life. And what can help?
Also, what are some signs of depression and other related disorders in general.

A: For me, it was mostly losing interest in things I loved, being miserable a lot, wanting to die, not wanting to do anything, wanting to sleep all the time… stuff like that. Fortunately, I found a way out of that miserable rut:

http://www.geocities.com/seabulls69/AntidepressantThatWorks.html

Q: What are some signs of clinical depression in human females?

A: Symptoms of depression include:

Loss of interest in normal daily activities
Feeling sad or down
Feeling hopeless
Crying spells for no apparent reason
Problems sleeping
Trouble focusing or concentrating
Difficulty making decisions
Unintentional weight gain or loss
Irritability
Restlessness
Being easily annoyed
Feeling fatigued or weak
Feeling worthless
Loss of interest in sex
Thoughts of suicide or suicidal behavior
Unexplained physical problems, such as back pain or headaches

Clinical depression, often referred to as major depression:

http://www.healthyplace.com/depression/main/major-depression-clinical-depression/menu-id-68/

Types of depression:

http://www.depression-help-resource.com/types-of-depression.htm

And not to be confused with mood disorders:

http://counsellingresource.com/distress/mood-disorders/

Q: What are some signs of clinical depression?

A: dsinterest in usual activities
difficulty concentrating
sadness
fatigue
crying spells

Symptoms of Depression

ALTHOUGH it is often classed as ‘mental illness’, clinical depression often has as many physical symptoms as mental. The feelings or emotions that are depression symptoms actually begin to cause the physical effects. How this happens is a vital part of understanding depression and the symptoms that come with it.

If you are depressed at the moment some of the following symptoms may sound familiar:

You feel miserable and sad.
You feel exhausted a lot of the time with no energy .
You feel as if even the smallest tasks are sometimes impossible.
You seldom enjoy the things that you used to enjoy-you may be off sex or food or may ‘comfort eat’ to excess.
You feel very anxious sometimes.

You don’t want to see people or are scared to be left alone. Social activity may feel hard or impossible.

You find it difficult to think clearly.

You feel like a failure and/or feel guilty a lot of the time.

You feel a burden to others.

You sometimes feel that life isn’t worth living.

You can see no future. There is a loss of hope. You feel all you’ve ever done is make mistakes and that’s all that you ever will do.
You feel irritable or angry more than usual.

You feel you have no confidence.

You spend a lot of time thinking about what has gone wrong, what will go wrong or what is wrong about yourself as a person. You may also feel guilty sometimes about being critical of others (or even thinking critically about them).
You feel that life is unfair.

You have difficulty sleeping or wake up very early in the morning and can’t sleep again. You seem to dream all night long and sometimes have disturbing dreams.

You feel that life has/is ‘passing you by.’

You may have physical aches and pains which appear to have no physical cause, such as back pain.

It’s this wealth of depression symptoms, and the broad scope that confuses many people as to what depression actually is. Explanations rarely cover all the symptoms, and everybody’s experience is different.

Q: what are the signs of clinical depression ?
i would really like to know because i think i suffer from it.
Please help.
should i go to my GP ? i’m 15.

:) X

A: There is a saying, “too little knowladge is a dangerous thing”. It means never self-diagnose, because you don’t understand the condition fully and can scare yourself into thinking there is somethinbg wrong with you when there isn’t. If you are 15 then you might have teenage depression.
The symptoms are:
*Frequent sadness, tearfulness, crying ect.
*A feeling of constant hopelessness/ feeling unworthy
*Anhedonia
*Persistent boredom; low energy
*Social isolation, poor communication
*Low self esteem and guilt
*Extreme sensitivity to rejection or failure
*Increased irritability, anger, or hostility
*Difficulty with relationships
*Frequent complaints of physical illnesses, such as headaches, back aches and stomachaches
*Frequent absences from school or poor performance in school
*Poor concentration (this mean in conversation as well as in lessons)
*A major change in eating and/or sleeping patterns ie. eating too much or too little
*Insomnia or hypersomnia
*Talk of or efforts to run away from home
*Thoughts or expressions of suicide or self-destructive behavior
*Alcohol and Drug Abuse
*Self-Injury

If you have over half of these symptoms then you might have a problem. Teenage depression varies loads from normal adult depression . Teen’s tend to be more touchy and easily annoyed where as adult tend to just become numb or sad. Clinical depression in teenagers is quite rare, and even rarer in children, but thankfully the condition is getting more recognition and not being dissmissed as “teenage moodswings” or hormone changes (although somtimes they are).
If you have been depressed for a long time and it’s starting to take over your life, then i think you ought to see your GP. But think about it before you do, because he/ she could zombie you up with anti-depressants. Just remeber that anti-depressants don’t make you happy, they make you normal, and sometimes people can overcome depression without being reliant on a perscription. On the other hand, somtimes anti-depressants don’t work at all and then the person feels even more depressed. It’s 10% drugs (if any) and 90% will power to overcome depression.
I would recxomend talking to sombody about what’s going on and how your feeling. You don’t have to suffer in silence, and you don’t have to hurt yourself to get people to care, they already do. Please, don’t spend another day feeling misserable; it just not worth it. Take care xxx

Q: What are the symptoms and signs of depression in teenagers?
I think I may be clinically depressed but everyone thinks it’s just because I’m a teenager. But the hurt, emptiness and confusion are much too deep. What are the signs of clinical depression, specifically in teens? Thanks =)

A: Hurt, emptiness, and confusion are quite normal in teens and every teen that has them thinks they are much too deep. It is a normal stage of growing up. Feeling sad after a disappointment is normal and there are a lot of instances for being disappointed in your teen years.

The source link I provide gives you not only the basic symptoms but the difference between normal occurance of those symptoms and abnormal occurance of those symptoms.

There is no quick fix to these feelings even if you do have clinical depression other than to find things you do well and focus on those when you get “down”. Antidepressants do not always work well in adults, and in teens and preteens they are even less effective and you only get as much out of therapy as you put into it.

Q: What r the signs of Clinical depression?

A: I’ve been diagnosed as being clinically depressed. It started a few years ago (although I didn’t realize it at the time), but I was on a slow decline. It kept getting worse until I got to the point I would cry any time any place, no matter where I was. I finally decided I didn’t want to get too close to “the edge” and went to the doctor.

I’m now taking anti-depressants – Wellbutrin SR (150 mg) in the morning, and Lexapro (10 mg) in the evening – and getting counseling. That has helped me more than I ever thought it could – and I wish I’d done it a long time before I did.

Paul.

Q: Is clinical depression a reason for medical discharge from the Army?
My husband is currently in Iraq and is showing signs of clinical depression(I’m a nurse by the way), his self esteem is nothing and he has convinced himself that I should find someone new because He is not worthy of me. I’m afraid if he stays in we will end up divorced.

A: Depression is a reason for a medical discharge. However he will first have to seek help, receive a diagnosis and start treatment.

Q: What is a good example of a thesis statement for clinical depression?
I want to do my paper on the signs of clinical depression.

A: That clinical depression is not caused by a brain defect or chemical imbalance, but that this is merely a symptom. You could then describe the other symptoms of clinical depression and discuss the numberous studies that have proven that cognitive behavoural therapy has the exact same sucess rate. You could even go further to explain that medication alone has a high relapse rate again suggesting a mere masking of depression instead of a treatment of the cause especially since CBT does not have the same relapse rate. You could even add to your thesis statement that the medicalization of depression, where people now attempt veiw it in terms of a broken leg instead of a psychological illness, is in fact dangerous. Then you might want to suggest the importance of both therapy in conjunction with medication as a way to treat both the heavy symptom (chemical imbalance) as well as the cause (the ways in which a person thinks and in turn feels and behaves).

Q: Signs of Clinical Depression?
What are the signs of it how can you tell if you have it?.. and How can you make it better?

A: lost of interest in life, hobbies etc.
lost in appetite
constant mood changes
you have to go to therapy and/or take drugs for that

but start on talking with your doctor

Q: clinical depression?
what are the signs or symptoms of clinical depression?
just clinical depression in general

A: A major depressive episode is indicated by 5 or more of the following symptoms for at least 2 weeks and one of the symptoms has to be either depressed mood or loss of interest/pleasure:
1. Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day
2. Diminished interest/pleasure in most activities
3. Significant weight loss or weight gain; decrease or increase in appetite
4. insomnia or hypersomnia (sleeping too much) nearly every day
5. Restlessness or feeling slowed down observable by others
6. Fatigue/loss of energy most days
7. Feeling worthless/guilty that are excessive or inappropriate most every day
8. Trouble concentrating or indecisiveness
9. Recurrent thoughts of death, suicidal ideation, or suicide attempt or plan

Q: What signs appear when you are coming out of a clinical depression?

A: It becomes very noticeable that you are beginning to feel good. Sometimes we forget what it feels like to feel normal and not affected by depression. It will be very obvious to you. If after 4 weeks you don’t notice a difference it is time to change to another antidepressant. Some will work for others bu may not for you. I hope that you do feel better soon.

Q: Do anti-depressants really work? Most people I know who take them, still show clinical signs of depression.?

A: Yes I believe that anti-depressants work, providing that you are on the right kind and/or combination. Also, addressing life’s problems through therapy and/or education – skills building. There are different kinds of depression. Some respond well to talk therapy, some require therapy and medication. On occassion, only medication is needed.

One of the things about depression is that things may be going okay or well for a person, but they start experiancing depression for no apparent reason. Depression is a bio-chemical embalence.

I worked over 20 years as a social worker in various clinical positions. I have seen the positive effects that being on an anti-depressant can provide. There have been clients that don’t respond well with talk therapy but start doing remarkably better after getting on an anti-depressant.

There is the issue of whether the type of anti-depressant is appropriate and that is where a very knowledgeable doctor is needed. Take for example an individual who is or has had some manic episodes – Bi-polar or a history of less significant manic episodes – Bi-polar II, taking certain medications can cause a person to have a manic episode, or cause them to go through rapid cycling.

On a personal note, I have been on anti-depressants and off of them. I know that I am definately more miserable (and harder to live with – just ask my family) when I am not on them or when the medication is not appropriate. In fact, I have just been going through such a time when my doctor took me off of all my anti-depressants (when hospitialized) and just kept me on a mood stabilizer. That was a year ago, and I can barely remember a time when I was this miserable. Slowly, the medications that my doctor took me off of have slowly been reintroduced. The only thing changed was my mood stabilizer. I went from Depakote to Lamictal, but that has had to be done very slowly given the potential side effects. It has only been in the last month that I have started feeling better.

In the past year since I was taken off of the medications that I was on, I have developed a serious chronic pain condition, and battle colitus weekly. As I get to feeling better, those conditions improve. I also have acid reflux and at times feel as though I am having a heart attack. All of the conditions I list are made worse by stress, and when depressed, I can not deal with stress very well.

In the past 12 years or so, I have been in weekly psychotherapy. That in it self has not been enough to get rid of my depression. Anti-depressant medication does not take care of the issues for which I struggle, but they do help take the edge off of my pain so that I can work on the issues more intensely. In addition, I have more energy, can remember things better, suicidal thinking decreases, the support and challenges from my therapist are more easily heard.

Yes people who take anti-depressants may still show the clinical signs of depression. There is a diagnosis that reads something like “Major Depression in Partial Remission.” But overal, I think that if the medication is doing it’s job, those signs of depression are decreased.

I hope that this helpful. Take care.

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