Psychological Symptoms of Depression

Depression is such a common illness which can affect any one and bring some unexpected and unusual situation. These unusual circumstances and negative impression of life lead depressive illness.

However, most of the patients of depressive disorder are unable to realize their depressive disorder stage. Though they are facing problems in their everyday life, for example, their normal living pattern became changed, their thinking do not work properly, their liking, disliking also could be affected. But as they could not able to recognize the symptoms of depressive illness they do not take the right medication. As a result, the depressed people become more depressed by ignoring the symptoms of depression and waste money in recognizing these symptoms through some medical tests and other lab tests or other physical scans which can worsen the situation more.

If people will be aware of the right treatment and accurate symptoms then they can easily overcome the difficulties of depressive disorder. Every disease or illness has some signs which refer the type of that illness. So depression has also lots of mental signs or symptoms, by knowing these you would be able to recognize your mental illness and take the right medication with proper treatment.

If the following symptoms are reflected within you or if you are suffering from the following symptoms for long time that means you are developing depressive illness. Here are the followings:

Grief and lack of interest: Feeling grief and lack of interest in every work are the most featured mental symptoms of depressive disorder. The people who are depressed may not able to identify their illness. Because sadness and lack of interest in everything will not make you to feel sick but if you are experiencing these symptoms for long time, then it is definitely a major sign of depression. Everyone loves to do or engage in his/her favorite work or favorite pastime. Different persons have different interest so they love to do that work which give them interest or pleasure. But the depressed people do not get pleasure in any work, even their liking seem boring to them. The people with depression are basically attacked by anhedonic term which reduces their interest, feelings, excitement, as a result their life became worthless and useless to them. Feeling sad or grief is also an outcome of loss of interest. If you will not feel or get any interest in work then you might not be able to stay happily. Depressed people may behave or react normally but their mind become unresponsive to the outer world. Even some depressed people reaches to severe stage and could not feel ‘love’ and emotion for their nearest people. As a result depressed people become unresponsive to the life and in some cases committed to suicide. So:

1. If you are feeling these symptoms
2. If you become completely bored to your life
3. If you lose the capability to understand the caring and love of your nearest people

Then you are in depressive disorder. So whenever you will feel these signs and symptoms, consult with your General Practitioner immediately, before making it severe depressive illness. Do not ever neglect theses symptoms even if these do not seem severe but can affect you in the long run.

Poor concentration and indecisiveness: Sometimes people could not concentrate on their work, study or career for long time . These symptoms should not be neglected, as these symptoms could be proved as major mental problem. Poor concentration and indecisiveness in every task may carry on the long way by messing up the normal life. For example, study life may faces failure, or job career could be disorganized. So if you are passing through these mental signs or problems then it is very important for you to recognize the reason behind this poor concentration and you should try to recover from these symptoms as early as possible.

Generally depressed people could not concentrate properly and become disable to take the right decision.

So dear reader, if you become perplexed and indecisive before taking every decision, for example you got a job but you become unable to take the decision whether you will do the job or not then may be you are developing depressive illness.

Guilt: Feeling guilty is another common and highly important symptom of mental illness. As I mentioned earlier, that the people who are in depression could not take any prompt decision and lose the ability to feel pleasure and love in the work. These symptoms lead another problem and that is feeling guilty. The depressed people take any failure as their own fault even if they will not be responsible. Even it also may be seen among the children. Sometimes some children do not get proper caring or love from their parents. This affects in their mental state and leads them to feel guilty in every work. The depressed people also suffer from sense of worthlessness and fall in panic situation. They think that they should be treated badly and they have no right to live. Moreover these depressed people is often treated as abnormal people to other people for these unusual behaviors.

So my suggestion is that, before it is too late, if you are feeling these problems and these symptoms are getting heavy on you, then you should immediately consult with a doctor.

Hopelessness: Our life is full of memories. Some memories give us enjoyment and pleasure and some memories remind us the painful past. Basically all of us want to recollect the enjoyable memories which give us pleasure. These memories also give us enthusiasm. Moreover we often want to see our future as very organized and full of enjoyable moment. We always want to keep dreaming of success, wealth, pleasure, happiness about future. But these all are not true for depressed people. Because the people who are facing depressive illness they completely feel the reverse feelings and become hopeless. Sometimes they could not identify the reason behind these unusual feelings. So if you are not capable to recollect the good memory, if you are experiencing only the negative image of the past then do not get upset because you are in depressive disorder. And depression is common illness and could be successfully treated by proper medication. One more thing, this hopelessness also can give you the worst image of the future, you may think that you are good for nothing; you don’t have any bright future. This feeling or symptom may be very much painful for someone and can lead suicidal thoughts. But there are many good treatment centers in the world which can help you to get rid of this situation.

Agitation: This is also a mental symptom of depressive illness. Agitation is basically an extension sign of lack of interest or feeling grief always. 

There are many other psychological symptoms like feeling helpless, rage of anger, excess emotion, anxiety, etc. which is needed to take immediate attention if they are found.