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Self Help and Insight into Depression

By: Dane Masters I love reading as a teenager, it was my escape. I would read anything I could get my hands on, Encyclopedias, Readers Digest, novels and even my parents self help books. It was from these that I came across the symptoms of depression. These were something that I had been experiencing for years but had been unable to put a name to, nor a way of describing how I felt. Thirty years later, I now have a good understanding of this illness and how it influences a person's life. According to www.add-adhd-help-center.com, statistics show that 13 to 14 million people worldwide suffer with the effects of depressive disorders and they have to live with these.
I remember one of the first articles I ever read, although I cannot remember the title; it was information regarding the symptoms of depression. This information is still true today.
Clinically depressed people suffer from sleeplessness, or they sleep too much, are restless and irritable.
They lose interest in pleasurable pastimes, taking care of personal hygiene and food.
Another of the early-read symptoms of depression also holds true today: the depressed person is continuously or consistently tired or exhausted and has less than usual energy.
More studies have revealed the numbers of people suffering from depressive disorders and you are able to find out more about this on www.add-adhd-help-center.com. Where you will see that other symptoms include:
Persistent, ongoing sadness, an attitude of futility and feelings of worthlessness;
Weight gain or loss;
Overeating (akin to undereating)
Ongoing feelings of physical illness such as stomach pain, digestive disorders and headaches, these are not limited to depression, but all may be treatment resistant.
Recurring thought of or obsession with suicide/death.
I found out-in my forties-I have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). A sister disorder is depression. It makes sense that I was fascinated with, intrigued by, or made it imperative to study the disorder of depression, as wherever I went, ADD went, and wherever ADD went, depression went. If you have ADD, depression, and/or experience symptoms of one or both, please know there are many, many books, articles, people, treatments, and solutions. You are not alone and you are not hopeless. You can get that refrigerator you are carrying around off your back. You can stop eating everything in that refrigerator, can wake up from heavy-boned sleep and escape, can shut up the seemingly convincing voice that recommends suicide as a solution, and can actually, one day, smile or even laugh at something again.

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