How can you tell the difference between depression and normal everyday blues?!
Question: If the low feeling persists for more than two weeks, it could be depression.
Depression, for many, is a slow, almost imperceptible process in which life, in varying degrees, begins to lose its meaning. Research demonstrates a measurable depletion of certain chemicals in the brain; this is the foundation for many of the drugs used to treat this condition.
The following are warning signs of depression and should be taken seriously if one regularly experiences them:
1. Depressed mood
2. Loss of appetite for food (or, less usually, emotional eating)
3. Difficulty sleeping or sleeping much more than usual
4. A sense of helplessness and hopelessness
5. Thoughts about suicide
6. Loss of interest in the activities of daily living (work, play, time with family and friends)
7. Unusual irritability
8. Feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt
9. Diminished ability to think or concentrate
If you are experiencing up to five of these symptoms for more than two weeks, this may represent a serious depressive episode. If so, see your doctor as soon as possible. Treatment may include counseling, medication, and in severe cases hospitalization.
Answers: If the low feeling persists for more than two weeks, it could be depression.
Depression, for many, is a slow, almost imperceptible process in which life, in varying degrees, begins to lose its meaning. Research demonstrates a measurable depletion of certain chemicals in the brain; this is the foundation for many of the drugs used to treat this condition.
The following are warning signs of depression and should be taken seriously if one regularly experiences them:
1. Depressed mood
2. Loss of appetite for food (or, less usually, emotional eating)
3. Difficulty sleeping or sleeping much more than usual
4. A sense of helplessness and hopelessness
5. Thoughts about suicide
6. Loss of interest in the activities of daily living (work, play, time with family and friends)
7. Unusual irritability
8. Feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt
9. Diminished ability to think or concentrate
If you are experiencing up to five of these symptoms for more than two weeks, this may represent a serious depressive episode. If so, see your doctor as soon as possible. Treatment may include counseling, medication, and in severe cases hospitalization.
Depression is when someone cannot brake away from the feeling it is daily and for over a period of time. It eventually effects their daily lives.
depression lasts for over two weeks consistently and includes general low mood, no enthusiasm and no motivation to do ordinary everyday tasks whereas everyday blues u can still do things but are low in mood
Its when you don't have any get up and go. You don't want to get out of bed for days and you don't want to do anything pleasurable and feel very lethargic sometimes crying and feeling sad unable to stay in the same mood.
Sleeping a lot during the day and being unable to sleep at night.
I think when you just have normal, everyday blues, they are usually about a particular thing or issue - for example work, money, relationships and once that issue is resolved, they go away.
When someone has depression, their functioning at life can be impaired. They may not feel they can do all the things they used to and might feel quite debilitated physically as well as emotionally. This usually doesn't happen when one is just a little 'down'.
Remember, at this time of year where daylight and sunshine are scarce, it is normally to not feel quite as perky. If it is just a bit of the blues you are experiencing remember to build some nice things into your day that you can look forward to.
If you are worried about yourself, then you could fill in one of these 'depression questionnaires' you get online. They don't have a huge amount of Scientific basis, but might reassure you that what you're feeling is normal. My doctor uses something very similar with me to see if my depression is getting better or worse. You can always visit your GP, who will be able to give you advice on mental health issues and some preventative measures to keep the blues from developing into something more serious.
Depression is over a long time and blues is a short time.
love.............Elf
Depression is when there is no event causing the blues and it comes and goes. Even then it may not be clinical depression. Often it is a lack of nutrition, exercise, goals, or interaction with people you care about.
depression is when u are felling the blues dys in a row and out of the sidden ur mood changes and u become obsessed with something, then u see that it's not working u get depressed even more, it's usually caleed pshicho depression
depression lasts for 4 weeks often longer.
I think the only difference is, that depression can drag on for a lot longer, than the normal everyday blues. I suffer with depression myself.