Severe clinical depression symptoms can often feel confusing to someone who is suffering from severe depression. They can often feel unsure of why they are feeling the way they are, and if they have not yet seen a doctor will be overwhelmed, although in some cases the severe clinical depression symptoms can be very clear to other people.
Severe clinical depression symptoms can include feeling sad and empty for a long period of time – usually this will be about two weeks, you may feel upset and like you want to cry all the time, it can also be that you have become irritable with everyone and everything around you. You may have lost interest in all the things that you used to do that made you feel happy or like you enjoyed doing them. A lot of people who are suffering from major depression may find it very hard to fall off to sleep at night or may have a very hard time getting a full night sleep without waking up throughout the night. You can also feel like you have very little to no energy during the day and feel fatigued constantly.
Severe clinical depression symptoms can also include unexplained weight loss or gain, for instance some people will find that they get no enjoyment from food and do not feel like they want to eat or even that they could eat, while other people may think they feel hungry and crave sweet foods like cakes and chocolate etc. There are a lot of people who also suffer an enormous amount of guilt, this can often be misguided however, a person who is depressed perhaps cannot see that they cannot understand that they perhaps they do not have to feel as guilty as they do. People who are depressed may also suffer from an obsession with death and perhaps suicidal thoughts consume them.
Not everyone feels and thinks about suicide when they are depressed, however if you find that this is what you are doing, it is very important to take note of and this is very important to speak to your doctor or therapist as soon as you possibly can. In fact if you are having these kinds or types of thoughts you really should stop whatever it is you are doing and immediately seek help from a doctor, a health organization even if your regular doctor is busy you will need to go directly to a hospital and explain to them what you are thinking. There are also a lot of help lines available to people in need, if you are finding life very difficult to cope with you can contact these totally private and confidential help lines and they will be able to talk with you and perhaps help you start to understand why it is you are feeling the way you are and they will be in a very good position to refer you to the appropriate services for around where you live.
If you do not know why you are feeling the way you are and perhaps you do not have a reason at all chances are the things that you are feeling are signs of severe clinical depression symptoms. You really should not ignore these symptoms; you should try and speak with someone, sometimes people can find it really hard to open up about their feelings and thoughts to the people closest to them, and this can be a very normal reaction, sometimes we are worried (albeit mistakenly, but worried nonetheless) that the family member or friend may think differently of us or perhaps they we will not like us anymore because we are telling them our inner most thoughts and feeling, if this is the case then you should still try to speak to someone, if you have a peer support group at work or perhaps an employee assistance program, you can speak with them on a strictly confidential basis. The employee assistance programs will often employee highly trained psychologists to help their staff deal with issues, once you have made contact with the psychologists in these programs, they will be able to refer you to the appropriate medical section if it is required. If it is not required and you feel comfortable with the psychologist you have met, then it may be possible to continue receiving treatment with them. However if you do have severe clinical depression symptoms, then you really should seek medical advice buy a trained General Practitioner who can prescribe medications or perhaps they can refer you to a psychiatrist if you need it. It doesn’t really matter how you get to see a medical practitioner, you just need to go and speak to one as soon as you possibly can. Major depression is treatable if you are able to seek help.