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I never really thought of taste being a part of depression but I guess it is. I always thought of my obsessive eating as depression but not the fact that I didn't really taste what I was enhaling. Food is only in three catagories for me, somewhat sweet, somewhat spicy, or bland. I don't really taste the spectrum.
All the other symptoms on the list are a picture of my life. I just spent three days on one romance novel (I'm a slow reader) and my house just went to pot. Gives me something to think about.
HI, THIS IS JENNIFER TURNER, YOU REALLY DESCRIBED HOW I,M FEELING NOW. I HAVE LET MY SELF GO... NO HAIRCUT AND I NEED IT SO BAD...EVERYTHING IS OVERWHELMING...EVEN TO THE POINT OF NOT TAKING A BATH EVERYDAY...I LOOK IN THE MIRROW AND I SEE ONLY THE BAD THINGS...WEL, I NEED TO SAY THAT MY VISION IS SHOT, I WILL GET MEDICARE IN MARCH WHEN I,M 65, BUT I HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH, VERY BAD VISION, CHRONIC PAIN....DEPRESSION. AND NO MEDICAL INSURANCE FOR THE LAST 7 YEARS. ITS CRAZY HOW WHAT YOU WROTE IN THIS POST FITS ME. IT COULD BE ME WRITING IT. I HAVE NOT UPDATED IN A LONG TIME. WHATS THERE TO SAY? I FEEL LIKE CRAP AND I LOOK LIKE CRAP...I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU WROTE THAT IS JUST ABOUT ME....THANKS A LOT......GOD BLESS YOU....JENNIFER
Hi Jenny,........as some one who also suffers from depression I know what you mean about not taking a shower or getting dressed. But I can tell you from experience you will feel much better if you take care of your self. It gives you a whole new out look on the day. If you can.......go out for a little while.......just to K Mart to walk around will help.
Good Luck,
Sunset
All the things u have said so far are so true! (i seen to check mostly true on all the other tests as well)
Im only 14 but basic things like hygene have majorly gone down the drain. Forget about showers i think washing my hands is all i can manage at the mo!
And my homework... well ill let you guess the state thats in!
I have a list of jobs i should have done and well right now thats lieing in the gutter. My life is a mess!
Even questions like 'what do you want to eat?' are too much for me! and forgetful.. lets not start i cant even remeber when somthing important has to be handed in or my student note book is! Plus my axiety is so bad i can barley go outside alone withought thinking somthing bad will happen. wow glad to know i'm not the only one!
I can relate to your problems. In retrospect I can see that I have probably suffered from depression since I was a child. About 25 years ago, I started taking trazadone and my whole life changed for the better. In 96 I had a very stressful year and began taking prozac with the trazadone. I thought it was wonderful, but that's cause it made me manic. Since then I have been taking zoloft with success, but it seemed to lose it's effectiveness after a time. I am now in the process of changing to wellbutrin and it's been a rough couple of weeks. I have had stomach aches, headaches, diaharria (sp), insomnia, suicidal thoughts and everything else. Withdrawal from zoloft? Getting used to wellbutrin? Who knows. And now I just read that wellbutrin is bad for your liver and I don't know if I should continue with it. My psychiatrist (an angel) died a couple of years ago, so I am just dealing with my GP who is great, but doesn't understand about depression. Any advice appreciated. ps. My husband also suffers but not as bad as I do. He takes celexa.
Thank you for this eloquent list. I found it when I was searching for writing about being depressed. I'm doing an article for our college newspaper about suicide, and wanted some words from within, as it were, to describe how it feels to be depressed. I won't quote your list verbatim but it did give me some good material with which to start.
I'm so glad your depression is successfully treated. I'm sure you give hope to many.
I too suffer from depression and didnt realise as a child that was why i always felt so sad and shut myself away in my room as much as possible. It took great effort to get to school as i didnt want to be with other people.I couldnt tell anyone as i didnt know what was wrong.
I have a grown family and a job i enjoy.I notice when i become tired i feel worse, tearful and worried, and no interest in ordinary every day things.It's like a black cloud has close in on me, weighing me down and you just feel such a relief when it lifts.
As soon as I saw this I had to send the list to my boyfriend. These are all the things that I have been going through for years but was unable to express. He would ask what's wrong and the most I could ever explain is that I am tired mentally. I could never put my finger on the specific thing that was wrong just that I know things were not right. Thank you for making this list.
that happens to me on almost a nightly basis. It feels like my brain is vibrating inside of my head and it hurts and makes me feel nausiated to move, even if it is to lay down. I also have been feeling sick to my stomach alot with no release and no relief. I am used to my chronic migrains, but this is different.
Boy, your symptoms are right on with mine! Except I have a few more. Like having a failed back surgery and now I can barely walk, can't even cook for myself, clean house, shop for groc, and the list goes on. So I look at my life now as compared to what I had planned for myself and it's all been taken away from me. So, what else is there? What's to look forward to? What's the use? There's just a big nothing. Since I didn't have anyone in my life, I don't have someone else to worry about but now I figure there won't ever be anyone out there for me either. Who wants someone who is gimping along with a walker, falls down alot, can't walk very far without having to sit down, etc., etc.
Your lists is the first one I've seen that people can really relate too. I used to plagued by depression, it was part of the reason I studied psychology. I just wanted more understanding. I learned a lot, but like you said, when those symptoms come right out of the DMV it just doesn't resonate with people. One more thing I wanted to add to your list, was that I often just didn't feel like getting out of bed in the morning. I felt it was just easier to stay in bed so I didn't have to deal with the rest of the day.
I always seem to find things that relate to me personally years after having had to struggle. Your list is spot on to what I've been going through my entire life, since childhood, age 5 - and not realising that this fishbowl feeling wasn't exactly ideal or had to be suffered through - I finally realised I was still/continually depressed when I was 18 and then again when I was 22 and now i'm 25 and it just seems...well...endless. The list of symptoms should be included in the websites which we all refer to as first call. Please try to make this list more available to those who need it. Although knowing the symptoms don't make them go away, it's a start.
Your list is great! It's way easier to related to than clinical depression symptoms out of the DMV..
I found another list that other might be able to relate too:
http://www.depression-help-treatment.com/clinical-depression-symptom.html
Lists like this one and yours are so much clearer and easier to identify with compared to the symptoms listed in some manual somewhere..Why does it always have to be so complicated?
Thank you for posting this. I've been feeling like I've been living in a fog and I have no motivation whatsoever to continue with college even though I know that I have to. I still smile and laugh daily and have bouts of true happiness, but as soon as my friends go home, I'm left feeling empty inside. I almost feel like I have to fake it even though I don't realize I am until I'm alone. Before, I'd have lingering happiness and now I'm left with an aching hole. I didn't know what was going on and when I researched depression, it gave me absolutely no answers. After reading this, I think I'm finally going to make an appointment with the school psychologist and get myself back on track. I need this. My future is too important to me. 
Thank you for this list. I have been searching the internet all morning looking for reasons as to why I have no motivation. I honestly never thought I could be depressed because I have felt this way my entire life. I am constantly telling myself, I would do the laundry, if only I had the energy, or I would join other organizations if I had the energy. I feel like I only have the energy to do so much everday. Small and easy tasks build on top of each other for months because I just can't find it in me to do something.
The only feelings I can manage to feel are worry or fear. I feel a type of grief, but most the time I am too emotionally shallow to even cry. If I do cry, it is a miracle. Everything in this world worries/ scares me. Often if it isn't my fatigue that stops me, its my fear.
I feel like I have no passions in life. My lack of passion often causes me to skip class or not clean my apartment. I have a couceling appointment scheduled for the 15th. I really am hoping to actually talk to someone. I have gone to couceling as a child and a couple times as a teen, but not enough to do anything before I decide to close up because sharing is just so hard.
If someone could let me know if I am on the right track? If life-long depression is something that has plagued me. I would be grateful.
my wife has been getting depressed i think for a few years now we dont talk anymore she is alway's irritated in me when i dont do nothing wrong we try to ingage sexuality and or flirt or just sit beside her she gets frusterated and irritated...
what can i do who should i call and what can i get her to help her what type of medicine should i get? cruiser_163@hotmail.com.....please read and email with answers please thank you
You hit the nail right on the head. I can't even leave my house to go have my hair cut or colored. I wear the same clothes to bed and while I am up. I feel hopeless because I have been on almost every med out there and NOTHING works. I have dealt with depression off and on for 25 years and probably when I was a child but not severe. My last child is moving away to finish college in another state. Empty nest doesn't help because now they have no time to help you if you have a real time of need. I have been out of work since March of last year and unemployment has run out. Think I could out and find a new one???? Terrified. I was very happy to read your list of symptoms. Now there is real life with depression.
Thank you.
Everything seemed to feel, or depression during his life. Depression is a condition of our soul. If you are, if introspection your soul, you'll find two basic proposals. One is the upward movement, often described as fun, loud, or height, while the second is a downward movement as described in depression, down, depression, pain, pain, symptoms etc.The of mild depression is a concern sad and shallow, and tired, or irritability, sleep disturbances - insomnia or sleeping too much. The symptoms serve the depression is a deep sense of sadness, despair, misery, sadness and darkness, stranded with experience themselves and others, an empty mood, feeling no self-criticism, a feeling of uselessness, even self-loathing, loss of interest in the life of a former favorite Activities, inability to take pleasure in life, decreased energy, fatigue, slowness, lack of sexual desire.
Thanks
Depression occurs when a person has feelings of sadness, hopelessness and powerlessness over an extended period. It is a common and treatable. Depression is another disorder that has been linked to the genes a person inherits, but it is a mental disorder that is also very closely linked to environmental factors, most of schizophrenia.
i knew i had depression without even going for tests... i am afraid of it - i am afraid that in near future i will loose my will to speach even know i am too tired just to write these lines... things seems out of what io want and the thing that trule hurts is i cant love anything and what i want is just a new thing that came for awhile - --short lived purpose
-i cant wacht tc
-i blame me for everything
-i hate when the walk about me
-unmosional or low level of it
-unable to understand love
-i hate my appearance even they seem to like it
-even with company i feel lonely
-and i feel better alone
-weird thought about death that i cant seem to get them out
physical
-tired
-insomnia
-pain on stomach - heart - brain
-headache
-tired legs
and the weird symptoms
- sometimes my movement gets slow may stand there for a awhile and loose all thought
- things that seem happy makes me feel sad even more
- i dont want to talk even inside me i have something to say
- isolation - i "delete friends" cause the lack of communication betwean us
- contanly i avoid things that i have to do i feel irritated and prefer to give up
i want to fight them i want to be all new
let face it i am nothing but at least i will try to be something ^_^
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......you hit right on the head............OMG!
I say your symptom list be pasted right over the Manual page.....
It says your "cured".......awsome. Even with antidepressants, I still can
not fathom that.