Depression Days

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We are not going to discuss ‘clinical depression’ here. Today we are discussing general run of the mill depression – feeling blue – feeling down – feeling ‘blah’.

There’s a sort of heaviness to depression. You feel lethargic and sluggish. You feel down and out, you have the general feeling of “I’m depressed”. You feel heavy and tired and just want to stop fighting with gravity and just lie down and stay there for as long as you can. Read the rest of this entry »

When symptoms of depression are affecting quality of life, a person may find himself asking the following questions. Why is life so frustrating? Why do I feel so irritable? Why do I feel so exhausted all of the time?

If you find that coping with everyday challenges is getting the best of you, it may be time to reassess your emotional well-being. Although life can be stressful, at times, and external events can and do influence mood, it may be that you are suffering from a condition that afflicts millions of people each year. Depression symptoms may be influencing the way you perceive life and how you react to it. You may, in fact, be suffering from depression.

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If you know someone with depression, they may need your help! Although they will probably never ask for help, they may need it.

For someone who has never suffered from depression it can be very difficult to understand. Many people still look at someone with depression as a whiner and often wonder ‘what have they got to be depressed about’.

Whether a person actually seems to have something to be depressed about or not is completely irrelevant. For someone suffering from chronic or endogenous depression, the illness is part of their lives even though they may not appear to have anything overly stressful going on in their life at the particular time. Read the rest of this entry »