- Running on Empty: If you feel like you’ve lost energy, feel fatigued or sluggish along with your feelings of sadness or emptiness, you may be experiencing a bout of depression. People who are depressed often experience a lack of motivation and feel physically exhausted.
- Guilty as Charged: Depression is often accompanied by a sense of helplessness, worthlessness or guilt. You may feel like your life is out of your control, and you are not deserving of happiness and love. These are false and unhealthy feelings and signs that you are suffering from depression.
- Sleepless in Seattle: If insomnia accompanies sad feelings, an inability to stay asleep or a need for an extreme amount of sleep, these could be signs that you’re suffering from depression. Sleep deprivation is especially dangerous because it may exacerbate feelings of anxiety or worthlessness. If you are having difficulties sleeping, you may want to consult your healthcare provider.
- The Hurting Kind: Depression can sometimes be accompanied by headaches, unexplained pain in other areas of the body or digestive problems. When this pain is persistent and does not respond to typically effective treatments, it might be a sign that you are in a depressive state.
- Restless Heart: If you feel restless and irritable, as if nothing pleases you or you can’t find peace in anything you attempt to do, you should evaluate your other symptoms and consider depression as the culprit. Restlessness and irritability are both symptoms commonly associated with depression.
- What’s Really Eating You: The way in which depression affects a person’s eating habits can vary greatly. Some people overeat and gain weight when they’re depressed, while others may lose their appetite and lose weight. Either extreme can be a sign of depression.
- Person of Disinterest: If you’re depressed and feeling hopeless, sad, exhausted and unwell, it makes sense that you’d lose interest in your favorite hobbies and activities. However, this lack of interest in things you previously enjoyed is a sign that you may need professional help getting your life back on track. Some people lose interest in sex, and others stop exercising even though they enjoy it. Still others abandon their social lives.