Would this count as depression?!


Question: Would this count as depression?
I was wondering if I have depression

when I'm angry I don't "cut" myself but I dig my nails into my skin until it's really red and sore
I start to cry even about the thought of someone I know dying
I don't have any energy
I think I am the ugliest person alive
I get hurt really easily
I don't care about me dying but scared that my parents will miss me

please help me?

Answers:

Hey, I'm a clinical psychology major and I'm graduating in a few months, so I'll try to help.

1) Many people have such mechanisms to control anger; like grunting, rolling eyes, shaking/shivering, and gritting teeth. Some people tense their muscles up. Whether or not someone uses these somatic methods of containing anger depends on what they've observed in life from other people and learned. But digging nails into your skin until its sore seems more than just a way of showing and containing anger; it has an element of self-destruction to it also.

2) Thoughts of death, dying, and separation from loved ones is common in depressed individuals. Your thoughts of people you know dying could be a sign of depression. You also seem to have attachment and loss anxieties, and this could either be part of the depression or one of the factors that have led to it.

3) Lethargy is a very tell-tale physical symptom of clinical depression. Do you also report having lost interest in things you used to like? How are your sleep patterns?

4) Yes, self-criticism is a huge symptom of depression. Especially when you beat yourself up for essentialist "faults" such as looks, hair, or body image. These are things you cannot change, and thus are heavier forms of self-criticism.

5) You may be very sensitive in temperament. Or, if you haven't been sensitive before now, it could be a symptom of your depression. When we are at our lowest, we tend to get hurt by the smallest things. And this is also because in depression we develop a warped negative view of ourselves and the world around us, so we are unable to see things in a clearer, more benign way.

6) This is alarming. What are you inferring? To me it sounds like your last statement is beating around the bushes of admitting to having suicidal ideation. This is something you must get help for. Tell your parents. Speak with a therapist (check your insurance or get the help of a school counselor), or if it is occuring very often, you can voluntarily go to a hospital. There, a psychiatrist can do a proper evaluation and get you on a treatment plan.

A word about your final statement, from my personal experience: I don't know if you believe in god or not. Afterlives and god and all these theories can't be proven, but what can be proven is that you are alive, and your heart is beating, and you are breathing. And that is existence. Everything you see around you, every day. Language, numbers, colors, your hands, your feet, people, animals. Suicide will take all of that away. You will cease to exist. No matter how rough it seems right now, things come to pass, and there is always a new day. No matter how dark it may seem now, in your depression, it is all temporary. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, and when people commit suicide, they do so when they are not thinking rationally. They become overwhelmed by what seem to them enormous, irreversible problems in their own lives. This is suicidal tunnel-vision. A suicidal person may think he or she is seeing clearly, but what they are seeing in reality is a warped, gloomy horror movie of their own lives, that is out of touch with reality. Suicidal people often cannot see good or opportunity in themselves because they are overwhelmed with the problems they think will conquer them. Please, even if you think you have no other hope, please, give someone else who has hope in you a chance to help you. You only live once.

B.A. Clinical Psychology, TCNJ
Survivor of Major Depression and Bipolar II Disorder
Attempted Suicide Before



No that is not depression. You would know depression if you had it. it is debilitating.

you do have anger problem and your way of coping and not showing anger is to dig your nail into skin. If that helps you not to have outbursts of anger then great but a better suggestion would be for you to press your upper lip against your lower lip until the heat of anger passes. It is less painful than what you do. Some people punch walls which is showing their explosive anger, but that does not make their condition depression.

If you cry thinking about someone you know dying, it only means you are a sensitive person and you love that person and you don't want to lose that person. the thought of not having that person makes you sad - that is not depression.

You don't have energy. I didn't either. I went to doctor and ran all kinds of tests only to find out I was deficient in vitamin D3 - so I've been taking D3 and I'm doing better. It is good to go into the sun everyday.

So in inclusion, don't worry, dear. You are fine. I don't know your age, but it maybe hormonal changes.



yes I'm afraid so, i would get help soon, self inflicted wounds no matter how shallow are still a sign something is looming on the horizon.



Sounds like you do have depression. Please go seek counseling!

psychology student



Nah pretty much sums up life in a nutshell

My Life in a Nutshell



That sounds like being a teenaged girl to me.




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