Symptoms of depression

There are many symptoms of depression that the sufferer and friends and family can easily pick up on. Obviously not everyone suffers with all of the listed symptoms so it’s always best to consult your doctor however you feel.

Almost constant feeling of:
• Misery, sadness
• Exhaustion
• Small tasks becoming completely impossible
• Life is passing you by
• Life isn’t worth living
• Being a burden to others
• Having no confidence in yourself or others
• Life being unfair
• Irritable and angry

Other symptoms to look out for:
• Difficulty sleeping at night, waking very early, having long lapses of sleep and/ or disturbing dreams
• Feeling scared, uncomfortable in social situations and of being alone
• Finding it very difficult to think rationally
• Physical aches and pains that don’t appear to have been caused by particular events or accidents.
• The want and/ or need to eat compulsively or to stop eating all together.

This last point is obviously integral to those depressed due to a weight problem. It can cause the person to either, put on more weight and hinder the problem further or dramatically loose weight if they stop eating altogether. This evidently will become a great risk to the person’s health, especially if this develops into an eating disorder. See our page on Eating Disorders.