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DEPRESSION GUIDE!
Today in the news I heard this report.
Quote: Young teen hangs himself due to depression, family blames freinds for not alerting the family
How many times do you hear this, A) Someone kills themself or they are killed by some mass murder. B) People are blamed for something that ISNT their fault.
My personal oppion on this story is the family shouldnt be blaming the freinds I mean dont you think the family should be allitle more involved and know whats going on in their sons life? I mean depression is pretty easily detected. And who can really say that the freinds even knew? SO heres some help for all you peoples going through this.
DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS: You feel miserable and sad. You feel exhausted a lot of the time with no energy . You feel as if even the smallest tasks are sometimes impossible. You seldom enjoy the things that you used to enjoy-you may be off sex or food or may 'comfort eat' to excess. You feel very anxious sometimes.
You don't want to see people or are scared to be left alone. Social activity may feel hard or impossible.
You find it difficult to think clearly.
You feel like a failure and/or feel guilty a lot of the time.
You feel a burden to others.
You sometimes feel that life isn't worth living.
You can see no future. There is a loss of hope. You feel all you've ever done is make mistakes and that's all that you ever will do. You feel irritable or angry more than usual.
You feel you have no confidence.
You spend a lot of time thinking about what has gone wrong, what will go wrong or what is wrong about yourself as a person. You may also feel guilty sometimes about being critical of others (or even thinking critically about them). You feel 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 feel that life has/is 'passing you by.'
You may have physical aches and pains which appear to have no physical cause, such as back pain.
~~~5 or more of these symptoms and you are suggested to see a doctor.~~~
WHAT YOU CAN DO IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WITH DEPRESSION: If you know someone with depression its always best to tell someone. But make sure its accual depression not someone trying to get attention. Tell their parents a school counciler or someone else you can trust. But remember you cant help depression they need professional help.
~Panic Penguin~ · Sat Jul 29, 2006 @ 07:21pm · 1 Comments |