Clinical Depression
Depression also known as clinical depression and major depressive disorder is an illness that affects both the body and the mind of a person. When you have this medical problem, you will elicit problems in how you behave, think, and feel. If remains untreated, it can cause other physical as well as emotional dysfunction that can affect even your day-to-day functioning and has a high probability to become permanent unless detected through a clinical depression test.
Based on clinical studies and researches, the real cause of depression has not yet been pinpointed just like other psychological problems; but researchers and other psychologists have determined some factors that could have affected the existence of such problem. First, it was detected that people who are suffering from this illness depict an obvious change in their brain’s physical structure which can be an apparent cause but still not fully determined.
How to Take a Depression Test
aking a depression test requires answering simple questions about your mental health status. Discover the reliability of different depression tests with information from a licensed mental health counselor in this video taken from eHow youtube channel
The common symptoms of clinical depression
Here is a list of the common clinical depression symptoms -
- Feelings of sadness or unhappiness
- Irritability or frustration, even over small matters
- Loss of interest or loss of pleasure in normal activities
- Reduced sex drive
- Insomnia or excessive sleeping
- Changes in appetite mostly decreased appetite and weight loss, but in some cases increased cravings for food and weight gain
- Agitation or restlessness — for example, pacing, hand-wringing or an inability to sit still
- Slowed thinking, slow speaking or slow body movements
- Indecisiveness, high distractibility and decreased concentration
- Fatigue, chronic tiredness and loss of energy — a situation where even small tasks may seem to require a lot of effort
- Feelings of worthlessness or guilt, fixating on past failures or blaming yourself when things aren’t going right even if it has nothing to do with you.
Understanding depression
What is the physical pathology of the clinical depression, which nearly 20 million American are suffering from.
Understanding Depression from Project Zenith on Vimeo.
How to know if you have depression
Here is an article describing very simply the symptoms of depression and the ways to test yourself for depression.
from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Depression is a serious and common illness that touches many people, everywhere. The following is only intended as a series of pointers to help a depressed person (or to help cope with depression). These are very basic successful techniques begin a new pursuit of happiness. Success is a process not an event or goal. Here’s a path…
Steps
- Do something for others: This will build self esteem and create gratitude in others, but start small, don’t be extravagant or extreme.
- Use positive affirmations: Repeat positive statements like, “I can do it. I’m all right.
