When you are suffering from severe depression, it makes you shun people, doesn’t it?

Life is not easy for anyone. It is often a continuous battle against problems and issues which never seem to recede from your life.

When there are problems in your life, you are naturally worried. You feel miserable, as your imagination runs wild that it will continue to torment you throughout your life.

And you long for your problems to disappear just like that.

But sadly, problems never disappear on their own. You have to make it disappear. But, in your depression, you never understand it.

When you have problems, it is very normal to feel dejected. Everyone undergoes this phase of depression in some stage of their life. It is not something you have to worry about.

But, brooding consistently about your problems is different. When you keep on thinking that your problems are out to destroy you, your negative thinking easily transforms into severe depression.

When you are depressed, you feel wretched about your life. You go deeper and deeper into gloominess until you feel there is no hope in your life.

When you are suffering from severe depression, it makes you feel helpless and hopeless.

You feel worthless and useless. You hate to mingle with people. You literally shut people out of your life. You become a loner.

Here are secret signs showing you are suffering from severe depression

1. You are perpetually sad

When there are problems in your life, you take it too much to heart. In your fear about your wretched present, you feel that there is no way out of your misery.

Your depression makes you feel your life is worthless. You think you can never feel happy in your life. So, you become moody and morose.

You never smile because you see nothing worth smiling in your life.

2. Lack of interest in your life

When you are suffering from severe depression, you are not interested in your profession. You reel out many lame excuses for your non-performance.

You are not interested in interacting with your spouse. If at all you interact with your spouse, you make him\her highly strung up by being pathetically negative.

Mostly you keep to yourself when you are home.

You are not interested in your children either. You are not a good father\mother.

3. Fluctuating appetite

When you are suffering from severe depression, your eating habits are erratic.

You sometimes keep eating non-stop to drive away your depression.

There are times you do not eat at all, as your appetite is killed by your depression.

4. You have tremendous mood swings

When you are suffering from severe depression, no one can predict how you will react to situations.

You get angry very easily. When you are angry you become violent and vicious. You break things in fierce rage. You yell and shout at everyone within your vicinity.

Even a small problem makes you feel tensed and worried.

Whenever you feel miserable, you blame others for your wretched state of life.

5. You sometimes feel numb

There are times you seem to have no feelings at all. It is as if you live in a vacuum. You feel an emptiness in you.

You become expressionless. Sometimes you stare into the space vacantly.

You are almost like a zombie which makes people afraid to approach you.

6. You easily get into addiction

When you are suffering from severe depression, you take to drugs and alcohol very easily.

You feel it can give you relief from your depression.

You want to forget the world. You want to forget your problems. You want to forget your worries.

So, you become a drug addict, or an alcoholic to forget everything that makes you depressed.

You become such a slave to these life destroying habits that you feel you cannot do without it.

7. Your body language is very depressive

Your shoulders stoop in depression. You walk sloppily. You never look into the eyes of the person you are talking to.

Your eyes are blank, as you are not confident. Your eyes also waver shiftily as you do not have the courage to face people.

It is because you have lost your confidence in the sea of miserable feelings that shroud you.

8. You talk about suicide

You also become suicidal prone.

You hurt your body with the intention of losing your life. You slash your hand, or you cut yourself.

You do many harmful things to yourself which makes your family dread to leave you alone.

9. You completely let yourself go

You cease to take care of your appearance.

You do not iron your clothes.

You do not take bath.

You never comb your hair.

You let your body gather weight.

You are least bothered about it.

10. You imagine ill health

When you are suffering from severe depression, you feel all is not well with your health. You imagine yourself suffering from many health problems.

You have frequent headaches. You complain of body pain. But often your illness is your imagination.

CONCLUSION

“Depression is the inability to construct a future.” Rollo May

The topmost reason for your depression is that you do not have hope about your life. When you lose your hope, you lose your mental strength. When you are not mentally strong, all sorts of negative thoughts enter your mind.

When your mind becomes negative, it shuts out your thinking power. When your thinking power is lost, you let your life slide into the mediocrity. When you let your life slip into mediocrity, there is nothing worth living.

Can see the vicious cycle of your miserable life?

Wake up!

Your severe depression literally shreds your life to pieces. All that is left will be the debris of your destroyed life. Never let this happen to you. Your life is too precious to be destroyed by your unthinking depressive attitude.