Do You Feel Like You Might Be Depressed?
A lot of people are suffering from depression and different swings of mood every now and then, and it is important to learn to make a difference between a serious case and a normal change in your mood. You are most likely not going to notice it yourself if you get depressed but if you do you should talk to your physician.
It is not uncommon for the depression to start showing as sleeping problems. This is because there is usually a problem with brain chemistry involved and since the same hormones which control your mood, control your sleeping patterns, you will find it hard to fall asleep and sleep continuously through the night.
Usually someone who is depressed gets the first symptoms without knowing what is going on in his or hers life. It is normal to start feeling anguished and like the walls are falling on you. If you feel like you can’t breathe all the time you might be depressed and in the need for medication and or psychotherapy.
It is normal to be suffering from depression for a short time every time something radical happens in your life. If you lose a pet or fail in something that is important to you, you might feel depressed for a few weeks. Normally it is considered that depression that has endured less than two weeks is natural, and if the condition does not go away after a month, you re-evaluate your situation.
When you feel like you are only going through a process by having a short term season of melancholy, you should not get worried about it. Medication or other treatments for depression are not necessary before you have had these feelings for longer than a month and medication is not necessary in all cases even though the results have been great with minimal side effects while using the new generation SSRI’s.
People today are being depressed more and more often and they don’t even know about it. Not until someone close to them mentions that they have been gloomy for a long period of time and have no expressed their emotions or reasons for the gloominess they start to worry about their condition. Depression can be a severe condition and that is why you should always see a doctor if you think that you might have it.
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