Do you have any of these signs of depression symptoms? There is a difference between having a “bad day” once in a while, and when every day seems empty and unhappy. In that case it may be that you are experiencing symptoms of a medical problem, and should talk to a doctor.
Two of the most common reasons that people feel depressed are:
1. A physical problem stemming from poor diet and lack of exercise. Much of our food today is processed and packaged and lacking in nutritional value. People don’t eat enough fresh, raw fruits and vegetables. This poor diet combined with a total lack of exercise can result in an imbalance of their body chemistry, causing them to feel run down and depressed both physically and emotionally.
2. A lack of meaning and purpose in life. Dr. Jung called it “the general neurosis of our day.”
“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be described as the general neurosis of our time.” ~ Carl Jung
Some of the Potential Signs and Symptoms of Depression
1. Unhappiness or anxiety that interferes with the ability to function in day-to-day life at work or at home.
2. Ongoing symptoms that occur every day and last more than two weeks.
3. Significant weight loss or weight gain. Major loss of appetite or increase in appetite (eating disorder).
4. Difficulty with sleeping, concentrating, making decisions, focusing on tasks, making conversation.
6. Thoughts and feelings of sadness, fear, anxiety, hopelessness, worthlessness, risky behaviors, suicide.
7. Physical ailments with no known cause, such as fatigue, headaches, stomach aches, back pain.
If you or someone you know is experiencing a variety of these symptoms, please see your medical professional right away.
Take care of yourself. Get some exercise, go to bed earlier, avoid white flour, sugar, alcohol and sodas that are full of caffeine and high-fructose corn syrup. Eat more living foods such as raw fruits and vegetables. Get some exercise every day, just a brisk walk in the fresh air on your lunch hour can do wonders.
To learn about joy and meaning and fulfillment in life we study depression. There are 40,000 clinical studies on depression and less than 400 on joy. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t study depression, the point I suppose is that studying depression tells you nothing about joy. ~ Marcus Buckingham
Recommended book, “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl.
Sometimes it can be useful to learn from someone who has gone through far worse things than we can even imagine, and has survived to tell how he made it through the tough times.
One such person is Viktor Frankl. He survived for years in a concentration camp. He was a psychiatrist and he wrote a book about how focusing on meaning and purpose in life can help us overcome almost anything.
“What man actually needs, is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task . . . the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.” ~ Viktor Frankl
http://books.google.com/books?id=K2AvZmco3E0C&printsec=frontcover
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If you are experiencing depression symptoms, be sure to seek medical advice from your doctor. This article is not intended to be medical advice and is only being published as a general news story. This is not a diagnosis in any way shape or form. Always talk to your doctor about medical symptoms.