• Depression Is Treatable

    Date: 2009.10.21 | Category: Consider this, My thoughts | Tags:

    You must have a short time you feel depressed. That is quite nature0normal. You will find that everything is very hard and difficult to do when you feel depressed sometimes. But when you’re feeling completely out of whack for a couple of weeks, and life has become a real drag, things are serious. So how can you tell the difference between being depressed or just being in a down mood?

    The first step is to understand depression. It’s like an ongoing state of being totally bummed out. Many things can trigger it, like the death of someone close, unhealthy relationships, family financial difficulties or being the victim of any kind of abuse.

    smile3The next step is to pay attention to your moods over a set period of time (like a week) and rate your feelings on a scale from one to ten. Maybe you are just a tad moody—maybe it’s more. Could be the lame weather. On this type of day you’re probably a one or a two in terms of feeling sad. When you have bad premenstrual syndrome, you may be a three. When you get around six or seven, depression is real. Your grades may begin to slip, and you may have trouble getting out of bed. When your depression lasts more than two weeks, and you have four or five of the symptoms, your depression is serious and you should talk to someone, like a family doctor or school counselor. Whenever you have depression of nine or ten, which is when you just don’t feel like living anymore, you must get help immediately. Fortunately, depression is treatable. In most cases, you can get rid of it with medicine or possibly going to talk-therapy with a professional therapist.

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