Diagnosis
Determining if someone has clinical depression is a tricky process especially to the untrained, since it has a possibility to be mistaken as the occasional down mood. Checkout the symptoms enumerated at the homepage of this website and determined how many of it do you think you or your love one is experiencing.
If you think you or your loved one is clinically depressed then you would have at least two of the following symptoms for at least 2 weeks.
- An unusual prolong sad mood
- Loss of interest or sense of fun in the activities that usually lightened your mood.
- Unprecedented weak and tired feeling
(Other symptoms of depression are identified at this website’s homepage.)
The depression symptoms present may vary from person to person depending of the severity of one’s case.
Not all of the symptoms maybe experience by the victim of depression.
Below are the subtypes of depression according to its level of severity.
Major Depression – Severe, and will last at least 2 weeks.
Dysthymic Depression – Not so severe, but can last up to 2 years.
Depression Not Otherwise Specified – This type will last up from 2 days to 2 weeks.