Mental Illness

Did you wake up in the middle in the night asking yourself, "Am I depressed?". If you are asking yourself such questions, then maybe you have started noticing certain changes in yourself. The best way to know if you are depressed is knowing the signs of depression. If depression are left untreated, it could develop into a major depression. It is easier to treat depression in the early stages.

Here are certain clues to know if you are depressed.

Do you feel unexplained sadness, hopelessness? Does these symptom remain even you change environment? Does it still remain even when you there no stress or any responsibilities over your shoulder to worry about?

Do you feel like shying away from activities? Are you no longer interested in school or work? Maybe most of the things you normally do during the day has no meaning anymore like taking a walk, watching TV, hanging out with friends no longer interest you anymore.

Are you gradually loosing weight and you don't know why? Also you could be gaining unexplainable weight in a relatively short time.

How often have you been sleeping? Are you sleeping more or less now? Over sleeping in know as hypersonmia while having less sleep is called insomnia.

Are you are feeling tired? You just feel over exhausted and you don't have a reason why, because you have not done anything strenuous to warrant been overly exhausted. Do you notice it in the morning immediately after you wake or during the day when you are up and about?

Are you having problem concentrating? You notice that you can not focus on one thing and your mind keep shifting from one thing to another.

Are you shying away from people or you just feel some sort of animosity towards other? Are you overly sensitive and you are blaming yourself for everything bad happening around you?

Do you feel body pains and you don't understand why you are having them or were they might be coming from? Sometimes you might have a feeling that you are going to die.

Do you feel like you are going to breakdown soon and the world is about to come to end?

If you said yes to at least two of the signs mentioned above, then you are probably showing signs of depression. Your best bet would be to seek immediate medical help. There are so many treatments available for people with depression and the quicker you seek help, the better you will become.