Decreased ability to think and ...

In spite of the sad feelings of the people continue to live their daily lives. In contrast, depressive disorder, experiencing despair and helplessness to master them for a long time, not so easy to pass and, as a rule, substantially violates a person's ability to adequately think and act that can not affect his job and communicating with people. Symptoms of depression. In the diagnosis of depression using a range of symptoms. Below are some of them. · Depressed mood for most of the day, the feeling of sadness, depression, emptiness. · Noticeable loss of interest to all (almost) pursuits (work, hobbies, etc.) and loss of interest in the pleasures of life, until the complete indifference to what is before like that. · Noticeable reduction or the addition of body weight without dieting. · Prolonged loss of appetite. · Sleep Disorders. Man or long can not sleep the night before, or he falls asleep, but wakes up several times a night. Particularly common sleep disorder is manifested in the form of waking up early. · Psychomotor agitation or retardation. · Daily fatigue, state of helplessness. · Sense of concern, shame, guilt. · Decreased ability to think and concentrate (the patient is scattered, it is difficult to focus). · Changes in behavior, such as avoiding contact with other people. · Obsessive thoughts about death, thoughts of suicide. All these experiences have the character of excruciating pain, causing significant disturbances in interpersonal relationships and lead to a noticeable decrease in the level of employment and social activity. Symptoms of depression are manifested in different ways, depending on age and lifestyle. In children, depression is revealed mostly in behavior: change the activity of a child lost his interest in games, friends, school, start moods, lack of understanding. Middle-aged man often point to the absorbing his feelings of sadness, melancholy. Events that lead to stress and tension to arise in everyone's life. Difficult situation can become a trigger for a depressive disorder, "immunity" from that no one else. It should be noted that, despite the bright and very specific picture of the disease the doctor can be difficult to understand the essence of the problems the patient understand the illness tormented him. This is due to the fact that the patients because of their illness and unusual experiences can not clearly describe your state, estimating it as something akin to grief. Descriptions of their painful experiences cause patients considerable difficulties. Often patients are mistakenly looking for help from a therapist or a neurologist, presenting complaints of weakness, lethargy, tiredness, decreased performance, functional disorders of various organs and systems. Somatic masks of depression. There are so-called disguised, hidden depression.