Depression is a mental illness. If it is not discovered and treated in time in the early stage, it will become more and more serious, and may eventually endanger your life. When depression begins, it will send some signals. If you can detect and treat it early, you can avoid harming yourself. Early depression usually releases the following signals.
What are the possible symptoms of depression in the early stages?
1. Feeling depressed
If you feel that you are in a particularly low mood recently and are always depressed, it may be depression. Depression changes with the severity of depression. In mild cases, it just feels particularly depressed and will gradually develop into pessimism and despair. Life is meaningless and painful.
2. Physical weakness, fatigue
If the body is particularly weak and tired for no reason, such as not even wanting to do some small things in life, and dressing, all these things feel very difficult or even weak, this may be depression.
3. Not interested in anything
Depressed patients often have no interest in anything, and even have something they like to do in the past, and even despise some of their past hobbies. Additionally, they avoid socializing, alienate friends and relatives, and prefer to stay at home alone rather than go out.
4. Self-evaluation is too low
Depressed patients often have low self-evaluation, like to over-bear themselves, and think that they are useless. Generally speaking, they look at themselves critically or negatively, feel that they can’t do anything, and think that they are useless. Moreover, they feel that their future is dark and there is no light at all, and they will feel guilty when they are serious.
5. Cognitive impairment .
After the development of depression becomes more and more serious, patients often show some cognitive abnormalities, such as inattention, memory loss, brain slow response, and even slow movements, but at the same time, they often show a particularly anxious and nervous mood.
6. Physical symptoms
Depressed patients may have poor appetite in their diet or overeat, and may experience sleep disorder during sleep. Some people like to sleep all day, while others cannot sleep and suffer from insomnia. Then there may be inexplicable dizziness, headache, palpitations, chest tightness, .
For patients with depression, the main symptom of the early stage is that they will feel particularly depressed. In addition to this characteristic, if they find themselves having more than four symptoms mentioned above, they need to be highly vigilant, perhaps because they have depression. You need to go to the hospital in time to seek counseling from a psychologist and provide targeted treatment to avoid the condition becoming more and more serious, affecting your health and even your life.
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