Depression can cause various symptoms ranging from constant sadness to feeling "blue" or more. Some symptoms of depression affect your mood, while others can affect your body.
Sadness and depressed feelings are ordinary in everyone's life at times, and it is a normal reaction to the changes and challenges of life. But when this condition turns into a feeling of intense sadness, including thoughts of hopelessness, helplessness, and worthlessness, which last for several weeks and keep you from living your life, it may be something more than ordinary sadness. It is clinical depression.
General signs and symptoms of depression
Depression strikes people in different ways. It may interfere with the daily working routine, resulting in lower productivity and lost time. It can also trigger some chronic health problems and influence relationships, and the medical conditions that can worsen due to depression include asthma, arthritis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes.
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Some of the known depression types may include:
Unipolar major depression
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, when an individual gets very angry, cranky, and often display intense outbursts
Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia), a depression lasting for more than two years
Substance-induced mood disorder (SIMD), the symptoms usually occur when you are taking a medicine or consuming alcohol or after you stop taking any substance
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, when a woman goes through severe mood problems before periods, is much more intense than the typical premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
