How To Identify Your Own Depression
Depression. What is it? Why would a normally healthy, optomistic person get depressed? If things go wrong, don’t you just talk yourself out of feeling sorry for yourself? So what if your 23 year marriage ends, and your soon-to-be ex-husband moves in with your best friend; you are left to cope with 2 devestated teenagers; you loose your father and father-in-law to cancer; you have extreme job challenges; and, your new condo, purchased without REALLY knowing what to look for (just don’t buy a home with a laundry room upstairs over the living room!) and you develop a roof leak, and a laundry leak into the living room. AND, you are the primary care giver for a very needy Mother.
You can handle all of this, right? And, when, the next year, you loose your Mother and Grandmother to cancer too, it doesn’t send you over the edge, does it? Particularly when you also have Multiple Sclerosis, which has been misdiagnosed for over 35 years, and the worst thing for MS Toshiba Satellite P300D-10U is stress and anxiety. You can handle everything, right?
Well, I found that I couldn’t. Consider the following list of symptoms that one should review if you think that you might be suffering Breath Point H71.9 from depression. OR, if you, like me, are convinced that you CAN HANDLE IT, if the rain would just stop; or, if the roof would just stop leaking (I’ve already tried to get it fixed 2 times, and it hasn’t yet worked; I now have a gallon bucket sitting in the front hallway to catch the water leaking from the hole in the roof); or, if the kids would just stop being “normal” teenagers, when you no longer have a husband to help you in the day-to-day coping with teenagers.
Here is a checklist of symptoms of depressive illness:
1) Loss of energy and interest.
2) Diminished ability to enjoy oneself.
3) Decreased — or increased — sleeping or appetite.
4) Difficulty in concentrating; indecisiveness; slowed or fuzzy thinking.
5) Exaggerated feelings of sadness, Аспирантура hopelessness, or anxiety.
6) Feelings of worthlessness.
7) Recurring thoughts about death and suicide.
I remember clearly my “last straw”. I read the list, above, and was Gorenje DU 5345 W sure that these 7 symptoms did NOT describe me. Then, with all of my water problems at home, I went to work in my 4th (top)
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