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Checklist for
Adult Depression
Note the
symptoms you have experiences persistently for two weeks or longer.
- Feelings of
sadness.
- Feeling
empty or purposeless.
- Persistent
feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.
-
Irritability.
- Loss of
interest in friends and family.
- Difficulty
concentrating or remembering things.
- Missing
work.
- Changes in
appetite (either significant weight loss, not from dieting, or weight gain).
- Loss of
interest and pleasure in activities you used to enjoy.
- Loss of
energy, fatigue.
- Feelings of
worthlessness.
- Feelings of
inappropriate guilt.
- Inability to
concentrate or think, indecisiveness.
- Recurring
thoughts of death or suicide, wishing to die, or attempting suicide (people
suffering this symptom should receive treatment immediately!).
- Melancholia
(defined as overwhelming feelings of sadness and grief) accompanied by
waking at least 2 hours earlier than normal in the morning and moving
significantly more slowly.
- Disturbed
thinking, a symptom developed by some severely depressed persons. (For
example, severely depressed people sometimes have beliefs not based in
reality about physical disease, sinfulness, or poverty.)
- Physical
symptoms, such as headaches, stomach aches body pains and aches.
If you
or someone you know has had four or more of these symptoms continually for more
than two weeks, professional help should be sought.
