List of Clinical Depression Symptoms
List of clinical depression symptoms used by
mental health providers to diagnose ongoing depression.
Check to see how many of these clinical depression symptoms match up to your own.
Clinical Depression is also known as Major Depressive Disorder, and its symptoms have been part of the diagnostic statistics manual for some time now.
These depressive disorders are diagnosed through a series of questions relating to eating and sleeping habits, daily functioning level, and a number of other criteria.
If you exhibit some or all of these clinical depression symptoms and have been for a period of not less than two weeks consecutively, please see your primary caregiver for a referral to a mental health professional:
- You feel miserable but can't put your finger on why.
(This is a very basic clinical depression symptom.) - You feel exhausted most of the time and have no energy, mental or physical.
- You feel as if everything in your life is overwhelming.
- You feel apathy toward the things that you used to enjoy.
- You feel very anxious without provocation.
- You don't want to see people.
- You find it difficult to think clearly.
- You feel useless or feel guilty most of the time.
(Another basic clinical depression symptom.) - You feel a burden to others.
- You feel that life isn't worth living, but again without knowing why.
- You can see no future; hopeless. You feel all you've ever done is make mistakes and that's all that you ever will do.
(The number one clinical depression symptom.) - You feel irritable more than usual.
- You have no confidence.
- You spend a lot of time thinking about the past and all of the mistakes you've made, or feel as if you've made.
- You are pretty sure that life is unfair.
- You have difficulty sleeping or wake up very early in the morning and can't sleep again. You seem to dream all night long and sometimes have disturbing dreams.
- You may have physical aches and pains which appear to have no physical cause, such as back pain.
Some of these symptoms may be linked to stress, physical or emotional.
Since stress is a factor in identifying depression, you can learn the difference between stress and depression by reading "Conquering Stress," by C.J. Green; an easy to read e-book that will take you through the symptoms of both in greater detail.
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