do i have depression????
This may seem like a stupid question to be asking on yahoo answers, but basically on any normal day by myself I have ALL of these symptoms
-Feeling sad or down
-Feeling hopeless
-Problems sleeping
-Trouble focusing or concentrating
-Difficulty making decisions
-Unintentional weight gain or loss
-Irritability
-Restlessness
-Being easily annoyed
-Feeling fatigued or weak
-Feeling worthless
-Loss of interest in sex
-Unexplained physical problems, such as back pain or headaches.
Sometimes I just feel really helpless like I can’t control my life and my life-clock is ticking away. I don’t have any anxiety I just get REALLY lonely, like unnaturally lonely sometimes i feel like crying for no reason to the point i know something is wrong with me. when I’m with friends, I’m usually pretty happy and positive but part of me feels like I’m just covering up so I FEEL happy. Personally, do you think I am depressed or something else? I’m pretty sure I have ADD if that helps
i love my life and am usually happy, it’s just that at least once a day and lasts for hours I’ll just get really sad. and its been going on for probably 2 years and it DEFINATELY interferes with my work (well, school) thanks for all your answers
July 13th, 2010 at 7:36 am
Im thinking that it may be depression or some other disorder. You really should talk to a counselor or doctor and maybe they can help you feel better. Also help you find out what causes you to feel so down.
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July 21st, 2010 at 6:36 pm
It definitely sounds like depression. How long have you felt this way? Maybe you should consider seeing a psychologist for a consultation.
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August 1st, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Most are symptoms of depression. Omega 3 helps both. See sections 22 – 25, at ezy build, below. There is a quiz about depression, through sections 1, and 2, at ezy build, below: print the result, and take along to your primary mental health care provider. With depression, there is a choice of possible treatment types which needs to be made, and you can decide to use either allopathy, (modern Western medicine) with its reliance on antidepressants and therapy, or alternative treatments, which I advise trying first. This is because antidepressants are known to increase the rates of suicide, homicide, and aberrent behavio(u)r, particularly with young people, and often have unwanted side effects, such as sexual dysfunction, and/or weight gain.
Tests have shown that apart from clinical (major) depression, their results were not significantly superior to those taking a placebo (inert, or “sugar pill”). Antidepressants retain a degree of long term effectiveness for only around 30% of people. There is a saying in the mental health field: “If the only tool you have in your kit is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as a nail”. So it goes with doctors, and their prescription pads: handy, quick, and convenient, when trying to manage their large list of patients, and often allocating only 10 minutes to each.
Most of them are only trained to provide antidepressants and referrals for therapy, with those whose depression is resistant to those treatments being advised to have ElectroConvulsive Therapy, (ECT) with its risk of permanent, partial memory loss. Therapy, while often effective at first, becomes “same old, same old” after a while, for many people.
I now advise people to: (1.) Take 4 Omega 3 fish oil supplements, daily, (certified free of mercury) with an antioxidant, such as an orange, or grapefruit, or their freshly squeezed juice. If vitamin E is used, it should be certified as being 100% from natural sources, or it’s synthetic, avoid it. (2.) Work up slowly to 30 – 60 minutes of exercise, daily. (3.) Occupational therapy (keeping busy allows little time for unproductive introspection, and keeps mental activity out of less desirable areas of the brain). (4.) Use daily, one of the relaxation methods in sections 2, 2.c, 2.i, or 11, and/or yoga, Tai Chi, and/or the EFT, in sections 2.q, 2.o, and section 53, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris whichever works best for you. (5.) Initially, at least, some form of counselling, preferably either Cognitive Behavio(u)ral Therapy, or Rational Emotive Behavio(u)ral Therapy. (6.) As options, if desired, either a known, effective herbal remedy, such as St. John’s wort, or a supplement, such as SAMe, or Inositol (from vitamin and health food stores, some supermarkets, or mail order: view section 55).
If the amount of daylight you have been exposed to recently has reduced, perhaps due to the change of seasons, see Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.) in section 2, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris and, instead of taking around 4 Omega 3 fish oil supplements, daily; replace 2 of them with cod liver oil supplements for the winter months only! (or, as probably a better alternative to the 2 cod liver oil supplements: 1 teaspoonful of cod liver oil, with a little butter, to ensure its use; I take mine on sourdough rye bread, or toast, covered with fishpaste, and pepper, to mask the strong taste). Optimal levels are 50 – 55 ng/ml (115 – 125 nmol / L). It should be above 32 ng/ml.
Don’t use medications and supplements together, without medical advice, except for Omega 3, which is safe, anytime. Omega 3 fish oil supplements: EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid (omega 3) —-360 mg.DHA (docosahexaenoic acid (omega 3)—–240 mg
Take enough supplements to attain, or exceed the levels (no possibility of overdose) of those every day, with an orange, or the juice of a freshly squeezed orange, grapefruit, or other antioxidant.
(make sure the epa is higher then the dha) important for adults… kids need the opposite levels: more dha than epa, but all are beneficial, if you can’t achieve the recommended proportions.
They should be certified as being free of mercury, and if containing vitamin E, it should be shown as from a natural source; otherwise it is synthetic: avoid it! Consider having your doctor test your vitamin D levels, (60% of depressed people have low vitamin D levels!) using the 25 Hydroxyvitamin D test. Those people who receive adequate exposure to sunlight, daily, won’t need the vitamin D from cod liver oil, but many people, particularly those in latitudes far from the equator, find this difficult to achieve.
If the above is insufficient for you, after several months, (unlikely) try one of the alternatives, such as the neurofeedback, magnetic, or low current electrical stimulation, or EMDR therapy, (see sections 33 – 34) keeping ECT back, as a last resort. ~~~ The feelings of loneliness should improve, as you get better, but you can try contacting the depression chatsites/forums at those times.
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August 14th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
If these symptoms last for 3 or more months and it is interfering with your work, then it is depression and you should seek professional help or try meditating or yoga
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August 31st, 2010 at 8:37 am
I’m really not a doctor and i think maybe you should talk to someone in the ‘know’. My mum had pretty severe depression she was just not in control of her emotions. I remember seeing her sat down with a look of terror on her face, just not being able to control whats going on inside her head. It was awful.
It does sound like you are going through it a bit, and you could be in the preliminary stages of depression. Before it gets worse go see a professional. you don’t want to end up like my mum (who is absolutely fine now by the way and loving life again)
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