When you have depression what symptoms do you have?

[angela52884]

Just wondering the different symptoms that everyone experiences with depression. Thanks!

[NightOwl]

I stop wanting to eat (some want toe at more, but I am opposite on that one), colors seem more dull everywhere, I don't want to get out of bed, I start having panic attacks, I am worried I will never feel good enough and will die from either starving or from too much stress due to the panic attacks.

Overall I just flat out lose motivation and enjoyment from about every single part of life.

I always get out of it though and then feel the best ever.

[jennBunny5]

I cry a lot, for no reason. I eat more, like NightOwl said, you can also eat less. I lost interest in doing anything. People just lounge all day not really getting up. I feel tired and irritable, but i can't sleep sometimes, or i sleep to much. I feel like my body is giving up on me, like it doesn't function right anymore..but its all part of the depression.

[Grezling]

Tired, so Tired.  Sleep in dark rooms.  Leave me alone feeling.  No appetite and just plain tired.

[kristypants]

I'm glad i read this post, i know about depression cus my boyfriend has severe depression
but i have anxietys such as hypochondria, GAD and PTSD so i now feel very very down a lot of the time
like i dont want to do anything
just sit
and eat
or not eat depending on the day
and i cry a lot or just sit and stare
i just feel like whats the point i think the panic attakcs have got too much...

[angeliz]

My Depression has kicked back in and im VERY VERY tired...(I hope that is what it is....)but Im so lathargic and just no energy, no motivation, sad, numb, is this anyone else??

[hillz]

HEY !  i have being diagnosed with GAD but i feel now for the past 3 years i have been suffering from depression .. just recently its got worse, i sleep very differnt patterns if at all ! i sumtimes eat far too much or far too little , i spend most days in bed and barely leave the house without feeling like i shouldnt be there ... get suicidal thoughts and overall feeling of being really down . biggest factor 4 me tho is the fact i am so irritable and get angry so easy over little things and take it out on others ,,,  i want help but when it comes 2 it i dont let anybody in , ah well theres my symtoms for u lol   

[Karen17]

I will just be sitting at the computer and then a sudden rush of extreme sadness will rush over me. I will have to leave the computer and run upstairs before I start bursting into tears. I have a full blown meltdown, no cause.

[sadgirl]

i either get really tired and so i dont go to work or uni just stay in bed or i cant sleep. feel really alone all the time and just keep crying without really knowing why i eat a lot less hardly talk to people and drink more. i feel a lot of the time like im never going to feel ok again but i always do in the end. i self harm and think about 0119.
if i do go out i will just sit and stare at nothing and switch off its wierd its like i forget im even there and im not thinking its like im asleep with my eyes open haha

[hopelessromantic]

I used to believe, "I don't have depression - depressed people stay in bed all day" and I was still going to work and functioning. But, in the meantime I dropped 22 pounds, couldn't eat, and my nerves were S H O T. So that's something to be aware of...just because you may not sit around crying all the time, or stay in bed, or just not smile or laugh doesn't mean you don't have at least a mild form of depression.......

[bzrk]

Tired, I tend to oversleep a lot. My body gets really sore and sensitive. I cry a lot. All food tastes and looks like crap and I'm not hungry anyway. Doing anything besides lying in bed requires too much energy.

What I find kind of humorous is that when I'm alone and depressed, I feel like the most sensitive, vulnerable little girl, but when my family tries to talk to me or irritates me I turn into this huge, enraged dragon 

[JULES]

I don't eat - basically because it just doesnt seem important.
I cry cry cry - and over analyse every possible outcome to every possible situation ever.
I suffer a mixture of anxiety/depression.

Generally I have a very flat attiude and feel like there is no worth in living - I feel very hollow and tend to lose touch with my feelings for others.
Life in general seems like a struggle.

[savexourxship]

Loss of appetite , weight loss, sleep 14-15 hours a day.  general sadness .  dont go out at all, miss time at work because i dont care. 

[Jules1963]

no appetite, sadness, insomnia, no motivation to do anything. I usually feel worse in the mornings. This is my first experience with depression, how long can this last??

[lilgina]

I'm actually experiencing it at this moment.  Extremely tired, I'm forgetting to eat, and disappointed in myself for not waking up early this moring to work out but I just could not get out of bed until 8:30 am, which is kind of late for me---as i planned on waking up at 7:30.  I also feel sorry for myself for no reason---or any reason.  Hopefully I will snap out of this funk soon.  Tomorrow is another day.


lilgina

[star-mile]

sleep! and lots of it. i know that's not a symptom, but i guess the right word would be exhausted, which leads me to sleep. i cry about little things, and i eat a lot, i feel like i'm never full because my mind is focusing on something else. i pretty much just lose interest in everything except for sleeping/eating.

[jessie135134]

I dont eat, it has no taste.
drink lots.
realy tired but when i try to go to sleep i have panik attacks thinking im going to die in my sleep of starvation or heart attack.
cry.
feel so lonley.
suisidle thoughts.
dont get dressed, same clothes for days.

[retrogurl88]

Well I have dsythymia, so I generally feel a bit melancholy all the time.  But during the spring and summer when things get more severe, like right now, I feel awful.  In fact, I'm getting ready to increase my paxil dose this Saturday.  (This is something I do every year around this time.)  So for my major episodes like right now, I am fatigued, very moody, and my mind feels like it's in a huge fog.  I also find it incredibly easy to cry, and the feeling of loneliness is almost overwhelming.