Every person in his life experienced feelings of sadness and anxiety. Such emotions relate to the natural reactions of a person to changing circumstances, they come and go without leaving a noticeable trace behind them. The problem occurs if the depressed state is delayed for a long time. Depression is a serious mental illness that can last for years without treatment. It has a significant impact on the usual way of thinking and is able to radically change behavior. Our site brings together the most popular signs of depression in women:
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In women: how is it?
Studies show that women suffer from depressive disorders almost twice as often as men. The reasons lie in the psychological, hormonal and social differences between the sexes.
Depression in women is often accompanied by increased anxiety, persistent guilt feelings, increased appetite and drowsiness. Women often cry, stop caring for their appearance, lose interest in men and intimate life. Many people are unaware that they suffer from depression until they become aware of the symptoms of the disorder. The following are the main signs of depression, with which women can identify this disease. If within two weeks or more, you have similar symptoms, you need to see a specialist.
Signs of depression in women
Uncontrolled Emotions
In many cases, depression causes drastic mood swings: five minutes ago you experienced an outburst of anger, but at the moment you cannot suppress sobs. You know that nothing from the outside world is the cause of such surges of emotions, they appear as if from scratch.
Changes in appetite and weight
Your eating habits have changed: you often forget to eat, do not feel hungry, or simply do not want to cook. Sometimes the opposite situation is observed: your appetite has increased significantly, food has become the main means of improving mood. You often want to snack, buy junk food that contains large amounts of simple carbohydrates.
Increased anxiety
Anxiety is a common symptom of depression. It includes:
- Nervousness and feeling of tension
- Feeling of danger, fear
- Fast breathing
- Rapid pulse
- Excessive sweating
- Muscle twitching
- Repetitive, restless thoughts
You worry about everything in the world: did your loved one get to work, wasn’t the head going to fire you, didn’t the doctor overlook a terrible illness on examination. You are haunted by a premonition of unpleasant experiences or dangers. Even if everything is well and well around, the background feeling of the trouble ahead does not disappear.
Trouble sleeping
One of the most debilitating symptoms of depression is the overwhelming feeling of fatigue, which leads to excessive sleep. You want to quickly fall asleep and thereby hide from bad thoughts and worries. Despite the long sleep, wake up in the morning broken and lethargic, you have no feeling of rest.
Depression can also be associated with insomnia. At night, you cannot relax and “disconnect” from daytime experiences; your dreams are often painful and disturbing. Despite the fact that you fall asleep late and with great difficulty, the awakening comes very early.
Indecision
You have constant doubts in the performance of domestic or well-known professional duties, you have to adjust for a long time to implement your plans or affairs. A procrastination unusual for you has appeared, which reduces your productivity and the desire to grasp the essence of the matter; you are postponing the solution of each problem until better times.
Victor bauerReduced concentration
You can hardly grasp the meaning of what you read, listen attentively to the interlocutor and hardly select words in the conversation. Against the background of reducing the desire to delve into what is happening around you, you do not remember the new information well.
Indifference to loved ones
You want to shut out even from your favorite people, you feel indifference to what is happening in their lives. Sometimes they annoy you or cause you to become angry. In addition, recently you have significantly reduced sexual desire.
Dependence on social networks
You notice that you spend more and more time on social networks, you do not want and can not control the time spent in front of the screen. Social networks have become one of the main factors that distract you from reality.
Hopeless look to the future
You think that the future does not bode well for you, there are only problems and trials ahead. Your whole life seems horrible, you often scroll through your mistakes, wrong actions and reproach yourself for them.
Loss of interest in your appearance
You have no desire to care for yourself, to dress beautifully and attract the attention of men. You have become dissatisfied with your appearance, often find in yourself flaws that you have not noticed before.
Physical pain
Headaches, nausea, "cramps" in the stomach began to bother you. In the morning there is heaviness in the chest. These various pains are not confirmed during the examinations.
Slowness
Reducing the overall vitality contributes to the occurrence of inhibition. You have begun to move slowly and cannot accelerate yourself. Your facial expression has become poorer, the speech has become more monotonous, the eyes are increasingly turning to one point.
The main thing in the fight against depression is not to postpone treatment. Many women who experience periodic episodes of depression throughout their lives destroy their own personality and poison their lives for themselves and their loved ones from year to year. It is extremely important if you suspect this disease - in time to turn to specialists who will help to cure depression forever.
