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How can I tell the difference?
How do you know if your depressed or just sad?
I was just wondering... There are times that I feel really down and it made me think.. Am i depressed or am I just sad?
How can I tell the difference?
You'll know if you familiarize yourself with depression symptoms. Another sign could be, if you are feeling really down, you start to lose weight or lose appetite, couldn't sleep and lost interest on a lot of things, you might be depressed...especially if it goes on for more than 2 weeks.
Is that so? I experience those symptoms sometimes but it only lasts like a day or two.. I guess that means I'm not depressed right?
That's right.. I was depressed too before.. I lost so much weight then.. But I gained them all back since I took comfort in foods.. Be sure to avoid emotional eating when you're feeling sad or lonely or stressed..
Sadness is a natural emotion but I think you know when you are depressed when nothing in the world seems to give you a reason to smile or make you appreciate your life. I have been there before too and the feeling was awful. My fiance and I broke up and it was very difficult for me to accept. I was very much torn and lost hope in life. What helped me through it was the presence and support of my sister and friends, and then prayers.
"Sadness is a natural emotion." That is well said. We were designed the way we are for reason. Our body has physical feedback loops such as pain and hunger to assist us in meeting our physical needs. If you never experienced thirst, you might die of dehydration. If you never experienced pain, you might burn off your hands by mistake just trying to warm yourself at a fire. Our emotional needs are just as real, but more difficult to identify. If you do experience sadness or depression, then there is some emotional need that is not being met.
We sometimes make the mistake of trying to satisfy an emotional need with a physical quantity such as food or shelter. It may bring us momentary relief, but ultimately the need goes unmet. This is one reason I avoid the use of painkillers. I masks my body's ability to reveal it's physical needs. If I constantly take analgesics to kill a headache, then I run the risk of permanent physical injury to my body simply because I have poor posture when I sleep or sit. But if I listen to the pain and learn from it, then I can avoid the long term physical injury to my body and the pain will simply leave, its message delivered.
The same is true of emotional pain. Listen to it and try to discover it's message to you. It is often trying to speak to you of family or friendship or a simple need to accept and respect yourself. Some people choose career over friendship or marriage over self acceptance. There is nothing wrong with career or marriage. But marriage cannot replace self-acceptance and this places a great burden upon a spouse (or friend) to meet a need that they cannot.
I have no personal religion. But I find great acceptance in the fact that God (call him what you will) accepts me just as I am and I reciprocate his love. That I was made to be unique and to have a unique relationship with him. As he accepts me, knowing me as he does for who I truly am, and still loves me, so I can accept myself.
Accept yourself, makes friends with yourself, and you will find that others will accept you more easily also.
Last edited by BJJones37; 08-16-2011 at 06:43 AM.
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