Depressed? Do you have a depression? If you have never had one, this is a difficult question to answer. Long-term stress can indeed make it so that you become depressed, or that you even have an actual clinical depression.
Depressed? What are the symptoms of depression?
A depression can show itself in many different shapes or forms, including one or following of the following symptoms of depression:
- somber mood: you feel down or unhappy
- apathetic feeling: you do not want anything
- anxious feelings: you feel irritable or anxious without understanding why
- not wanting to take initiative
- concentration issues: you find it difficult to focus on work, or even on a normal conversation
- memory problems: your short-term memory does no longer work so well
- loss of energy: you no longer have any energy to do normal things
- tiredness: you feel tired and exhausted without finding a logical cause for this
- sleeplessness: you find it difficult to fall asleep or to sleep through the night
- hopelessness: your life does not seem to have a point
- low self-esteem: you have the feeling that you are not worth anything and that you cannot do anything
- lessened performance at work: you feel like you can no longer take on your work
- eating habits have changed: you no longer feel like eating
- decreased libido: you do no longer want to have sex
- decreased social contacts: you isolate yourself and no longer want to hang out with people
Depression test: Test if you are depressed
Take our online depression test here to see if you suffer from depression or are in the risk zone
Paul Koeck, MD
