Signs of severe depression

Depression is a familiar word for many in this busy world.Have you ever been sad,the answer would be obviously yes.Everyone will undergoes sadness which is something you cant avoid unless you have super natural power and do big stunts like spiderman and you can grow your ego beyond sadness grasp.Sadness comes and goes and the story of depression is not about your sadness and worries.Many people think they are getting depressed and the name is getting a widespread usage.But what actually they go through is worries.Our wrong usage of this term often makes it more difficult to conceive its meaning.
 Here I am putting a question. Have you ever been sad for years without doing anything.Anything refers to your normal routine of daily activities like not moving ,not brushing, not taking food etc.Then physicians are calling such a phenomena as depression.Depression is the lack of interest on any things around you to the point of being uninvolved on any circumstances.For example,when I was working in a Mental health centre in christian medical college,bagayam,Vellore,Tamilnadu.I had a patient whose name I don't want to disclose will be seated in a chair in the general patients area around 8 every day morning.I usually visit this person first.
In the cool shade,this person was made to sit on a chair.He was introduced to me as case of severe form of depression.He will not do any of his work by himself.His mother will feed him,cloth him,bath him and taking good care of him.He was very passive.He will not talk to anyone.he has a fixed look on something.
I was a student that time and I thought he is in his own world.But after some months I heard about him from my friends and what they told was amazing.He became very normal now.He was playing out door games with other patients.I was happy for  this poor fellow for he got his life back.The amazing thing is he could able to recount what all happened on those days of his blackest depression.He knows and he was telling what all happened around him.To me he was not at all in this world and it came as a real treat to me it was the least thing I ever expected from him. He gave me  an opportunity to study various issues encircling depression.

So my friends I believe you got a better idea of what depression is and what I shared above is the extreme.Then you may ask what are the early signs of depression.

Common signs and symptoms:

Restlessness

Anger and irritability

Loss of appetite

Eating too much

Self loathing

Insomnia

Sleeping for a longer period

Trouble focusing

Problem with remembering things

Lack of attention

Loss of energy

Boring attitude in everything

Hopelessness attitude

A constant decrease in the lack of confidence of the self.

Unreasonable pain

Sudden weight loss

Sudden weight gain

Irritable mood

The above stated characters are the early signs and symptoms of depression.It is important to note that not all memory problems and loss of focus and decision making capacity not always related to depression.They possess the extreme status like either they have no appetite or they have an appetite which consume half of your families ration.

They complain of ache or pain which they know not where it is paining and they will do it quite often without a reason.They will have lack of interest in everything they encounter.This type of sign is quite dangerous as they tend to go into suicidal attempts.There will be sudden weight loss or weight gain according to their appetite.They show a lack of self confidence.They usually feel very tired and they show a negligent attitude towards anything that arise in their way which they are not prepared for.

If you friends have any of the above signs and symptoms don't get into worry and don't go into depression because 90% of the human population undergo all the above signs and symptoms of depression in their life time.If you are undergoing these things right now.Be chill about that my friend,I have also undergone some of them.But if you are a  case where you couldn't help yourself and  you are experiencing the above situations everyday.It is better you check with a psychiatrist.

Friends please don't take it easily, as one symptom will lead to another and the depression in you will get a strong hold on you.It is easy to treat if it is early.