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Originally Posted by nottrustin
During my last session T and started to discuss signs that I was experiencing true medical depression vs. a situational depression. I am suppose to be making a list of things that I noticed recently before I admitted I was depressed and how bad it was. T knew I was a having a very difficult time but didn't know how bad until I finally decided to change my meds with Pdoc and rated my mood on a scale of 1-10 and then I told T.
Knowing the difference is very difficult for me as there is so much in my life that could cause situational depression... T said if it lasts longer than 2 weeks then we need to really look at depression. It had been almost 2 YEARS for me...it just got progressively worse to the point that I was completely numb.
So what are you clues that you are depressed?
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I believe that situations of prolonged stress can cause depression.
Symptoms would be:
--Despair, hopelessness, thinking the world would be better without you
--Intense flashes of anger and no place to express it
--Tiredness, boredom with things that used to bring joy, sleeping a lot or not at all, or sleeping at the wrong times (awake all night, sleep all day)
--A growing To Do list, bills unpaid, mail piling up, not showering, an inability to cope with the annoying details of modern life
