thing, neither fun activities they used to enjoy, nor being with people they care about, this leads to not functioning at all. They stay in bed or sit in a chair all day, staring at the walls.SYMPTOM’S OF DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS?To be diagnosed as having a depressive illness, you must haveexperienced for at least two weeks, at least four of the following symptoms: 1. loss of energy.2. poor appetite or significant weight loss.(for no obvious reason like diet, sport or sauna) or increased appetite or significant weight gain.3. insomnia or excessive sleeping.4. psychomotor agitation or retardation (slowness).5. loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities, or decrease in sexual drive.6. feeling of worthlessness, self-reproach, or excessive or inappropriate guilt.7. diminished abbility to think or concentrate, such as slowed thinking, or indecisiveness(unable to make simple decisions, such as what to wear to school or eat for breakfast).8. recurrent thoughts of death, wishes to be dead or suicide attempts.The symptoms listed above cannot have occured as a result of an organic illness, such as influenza, hypothyrodism, cancer, Alzheimer disease or other brain diseases leading to mental detereoration, neither can the symptoms be the result of grief due to the death of a close relative or friend. It must be either depression or manic depression (described below).Crying for no reason is another common symphtom, but some depressed people complain of the inability to cry, even when they feel tearful. They say being unable to cry, a way to let out some of their sad feelings, is far more painful than crying for hours at a time. Another symptom is dellusion or false ideas of depressive nature. Teenagers might feel that their parents are spying on them (if they really do, it doesn't mean you are depressed!). Guilt often goes along connected with dellusion.One third of depressed people suffer from anxiety attacks, which usually disappear when dep...
