Individuals suffering from depression may not always feel similar types of symptoms. Depending on the type or time of depression stayed, the symptoms can also vary.
Here is a list of some generic symptoms of depression,
- Recurring thoughts of suicide, self-harm, suicide attempts, and death
- Urge to cry a lot
- Feeling angry or annoyed,
- Feeling sad or anxious,
- Feeling hopeless, worthless, and pessimistic
- Trouble in concentrating, remembering, or making decisions
- Loss of interest in hobbies and activities that one might have enjoyed once
- Reduced energy or fatigue
- Slow movement or talking
- Changes in appetite or weight
- Trouble early morning awakening, sleeping
- Oversleeping
- Chronic physical pain (headaches, cramps, pains, digestive issues) with no apparent cause, which hardly improves with treatment
From the above, individuals can learn about symptoms of major depressive disorder.
Now, let’s focus on different symptoms on the basis of gender or age group. Following is discussed symptoms of depression in women; read on.
- Irritability
- Loss of interest in activities, social engagements
- Recurrent thoughts of suicide
- Slow talking or movement
- Decreased energy, extreme tiredness
- Changes in appetite and weight changes
- Feeling sad or empty, anxious, or hopeless
- Difficulty sleeping through the night, waking early or sleeping too much
- Aches, headaches, or increased cramps
Next, let’s move on to the symptoms of depression in teens and children; here is a list,
- Depression in adolescence may often co-occur with other disorders such as eating disorders, anxiety, or substance abuse.
- Teenagers may also develop a risk for suicide.
Children who experience depression at an early age are more likely to have serious health issues later in adulthood. Following is a list of symptoms of anxiety and depression in children,
- Children can pretend to be sick
- They can refuse to go to school
- They can develop a feeling that their parent may die and keep worrying about that
- Children can have feelings such as intense sadness, despair or crying
- They can avoid other siblings, friends
- They can develop thoughts of self-harm, or thoughts of suicide may come into their mind
- Children can have difficulty in sleeping, or they tend to sleep more
- They can have difficulty in concentrating, their performance in school may downgrade
- They can have digestive issues, can start to eat more or significantly less
Lastly, let’s learn about symptoms of depression in men.
- Feeling of hopelessness and helpless
- Irritability, discouraged
- Feeling of angry, aggressiveness, restlessness
- Loss of interest
- Fatigue, aches,
- Digestive issues
From the above discussion, individuals can learn both the generic symptoms as well as gender-specific symptoms. Now, let’s dig out who are at risk of getting depression, cause of depression and anxiety, treatment and many more.