Depression - The symptoms

I have been working on various things to add to 'Down with Depression', but i feel before i move onto more exact articles on depression, i need to cover something that is crucial to understanding depression... symptoms.

Stress usually leads on to feeling down and miserable, yes, we have all experienced this at some point in our lives.
The difference is when you're suffering from depression, these feelings will last for weeks, months and even years in some cases. In addition to feeling low most or all of the time, many other symptoms can occur in depressive illnesses. I wanted to highlight some of the typical symptoms of depression:

- Being unable to enjoy things that would normally be enjoyable.
- Losing interest in everyday activities and normal day to day occasions.
- Constantly feeling tired and having no energy, regardless of sleep.
- Difficulty sleeping and at times waking up early. Some may even feel that there is nothing to get up for at all.
- Having no interest in food or over eating, this usually results in loosing or gaining too much weight.
- Loosing your sex drive.
- Finding it difficult to concentrate.
- Feeling anxious, restless or irritable.
- Losing self-confidence.
- Avoiding contact with people.
- Finding its hard to make up your mind on certain decisions.
- Feeling useless and inadequate - 'a waste of space'.
- Feeling guilty about situations that you wouldn't normally worry about.
- Feeling hopeless - that nothing will make things better.

Finally, one that is obvious to most, Suicide. If you're contemplating something like this, speak to someone. Talking will help and always remember that two heads are better than one.

We've looked at the lowdown of depression, the real ins and outs. We've focused on the various categories and in this article we've looked at some of the typical symptoms. I have been working on the next few articles intensively to ensure the content is full to the brim with information and reading material people actually want. There will be reviews, exciting news on new social networks as well as a lot more, including links to others resources, related sites and more.