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depression
📅 Updated:2025-04-09
🕒 Created:2019-11-07
🆔 ID:27835
Description
Depression is a common mental health condition characterized by a persistent feeling of sadness, loss of interest, and changes in behavior and thinking. It can significantly interfere with daily life and well-being. Symptoms of depression can vary from mild to severe and can appear differently in each person.
These symptoms can include:
These symptoms can include:
- Feeling sad, irritable, empty and/or hopeless.
- Losing interest or pleasure in activities you once enjoyed.
- A significant change in appetite (eating much less or more than usual) and/or weight (notable loss or gain unrelated to dieting).
- Sleeping too little or too much.
- Decreased energy or increased tiredness or fatigue
- Increase in purposeless physical activity (e.g., inability to sit still, pacing, handwringing) or slowed movements or speech that are severe enough to be observable by others.
- Feeling worthless or excessively guilty.
- Difficulty thinking or concentrating, forgetfulness, and/or difficulty making minor decisions.
- Thoughts of death, suicidal ideation, or suicide attempts.
