Everyone at times,feel a kind of sadness.But that's a normal reaction when we got loss and full of problems.
But when intense sadness -- including feeling helpless, hopeless, and worthless -- lasts for many days to weeks and keeps you from living your life, it may be something more than sadness. You could have clinical depression -- a treatable medical condition.(WebMD)
However, the( American Psychiatric Association) added that Depression (major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Fortunately, it is also treatable. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person’s ability to function at work and at home.
How it affects our daily lives ?
Even for people who suffer with milder forms of depression, this mood disorder can affect many facets of their life. Clinical depression can complicate serious health conditions such as heart disease or cancer. Depression can lead to problems with pain, sexual desire and performance, and sleep. (WebMD)
And in accordance in this site(depression-guide.com) " Depression is a disorder that can ruin your life. For many people depression sneaks up on us gradually. We are going about our daily lives and it is only in looking back that we start to realize that our attitude to life has changed. Often it is our family, friends or work colleagues that notice these changes before us."
*It affects your physical well-being, resulting in chronic fatigue, sleep problems, and changes in appetite.
*It prevents you from enjoying and living your life to the fullest
*It affects your mood, with feelings of sadness, emptiness, hopelessness and dysphoria.
*We no longer have the same energy and enthusiasm in our relationships.
*You've been making excuses to friends why you can't get together with them, or you're telling them you're "just too tired."
*We often prefer to stay home rather than go out, be alone rather than share and talk. We push others away.
*We become very self focused and sensitive, easily offended, and quick to snap.
*As our relationships start to break down, we blame ourselves. We feel worthless, believing that no-one would want to be with us because we don't want to be with ourselves. We push people away and then feel worse because we are alone.
*It takes you a whole weekend to do chores that used to only occupy a morning.
*You've really let yourself go - you're wearing clothes that make you look dumpy, you've stopped exercising, you're not shaving unless it's absolutely necessary.
*It affects the way you think, interfering with concentration and decision making.
*You're drinking or using drugs to escape the pain.
*It affects your behavior, with increased irritability and loss of temper, social withdrawal, and a reduction in your desire to engage in pleasurable activities.
*You lose things, you lose track of things and can't always remember what day it is.
*You've pretty much stopped eating, or caring what you eat and whether it tastes good.On the flip side, you may be eating all the time because you're bored and hope that food will somehow satisfy the vacant feeling you have.
Depression is serious and it is one of the most common cause why people commit suicide, just what it said by(Mental Health Daily) The most common cause of suicide is untreated depression, as 90% of individuals who commit suicide are depressed.
And now, we already know how depression really affects the lives of many people.Let us help one another and do something.