If you have at least five of the following symptoms in at least two weeks, DEPRESSION should be questioned.
• Depressed mood, loss of interest or lack of enjoyment
• Inability to do daily work and strength, unwillingness to do daily work,
• Losing or gaining excessive weight without fasting (gaining or losing more than 5% of body weight in a month.) Loss of appetite or excessive appetite.
• Excessive sleeping or insomnia almost every day,
• Distress, restlessness, restlessness,
• Feeling tired and sluggish (feeling as if the energy has been drained)
• Feeling worthless, inferior or guilty,
• Inability to focus attention on one point,
• Excessive decrease in sexual desire or loss of desire,
All diseases that go with distress are called depression among the people. But depression is a special case beyond all of these. Not all of the above-mentioned symptoms are expected to be seen in everyone. The important thing is how much these symptoms affect the person’s social, professional and human relations. A person who is unable to work and has difficulties in maintaining human relations means someone who has begun to push the limits of illness. Because depression has its own steps. There is a difference between a person with the most severe major depression and a person with depressive complaints. But both can eventually turn into each other.
Although there are symptoms that seem contradictory among the listed symptoms, the differentiation of different subtypes of depression is a task that can only be done by an expert eye and when all the symptoms are evaluated together.
If anyone around you has these symptoms and affects their daily life, this person may be depressed. These symptoms can happen to anyone from time to time. Let us remind you of the most important double point to pay attention to.
1-The duration of the symptoms
2-How much they affect daily life.
There are two main principles in treatment.
1- Chemotherapy: drug treatment
2-Methods of psychotherapy.
When these two methods are applied together, the best answers are obtained.
After all the symptoms of the disease have passed, the thing to do is to use drugs for at least 6 more months and to see your psychiatrist at certain intervals. Remember, having depression once is a sign that the second one will come easier.