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If you are depressed, your diagnosis will depend on how many symptoms you are experiencing and how long they last. Symptoms of depression include: • Depressed mood, sadness, or an “empty” feeling • Loss of interest or pleasure in ac4vi4es you once enjoyed • Significant weight loss when not die4ng or significant weight gain
This workbook aims to help you to: Recognise whether you may be experiencing symptoms of depression. Understand what depression is, what causes it and what keeps it going. Find ways to understand, manage or overcome your depression.
When intense sadness, including feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness and helplessness, lasts for weeks or even months and interferes with your everyday life, then it might be something more than sadness. Depression, also called clinical depression or major depressive disorder, is much more than simple unhappiness. It is a common and long-lasting
symptoms of depression (e.g., difficulty sleeping, change in appetite, lethargy). When people recover from depression, these changes disappear and brain activity goes back to normal. It is not known whether brain changes cause depression or are a side effect of depression.
depression is a sad mood. A person with depression may cry or feel like crying, even when there seems to be nothing to cry about, or may find it impossible to cry when a sad event occurs, even though they feel extremely sad. Behavioral signs of depression may include trouble sleeping and changes in appetite. It
SIGNS OF DEPRESSION. “My wife left me because I wasn’t good enough for her. I will never be able to get along without her.” “My hair is thinning. I’m losing my looks. No one will care about me any-more.” “I just can’t get myself to do any work around the house. My marriage is falling apart.”
explores the three parts of depression we talked about earlier: • The way we think: It helps us to question the way we think about events and situations. • How we feel: It helps us to understand, manage and overcome or cope with symptoms of depression and strong and persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness.
