Do I Have Depression? Diagnosing Yourself is the First Step Toward Recovery

Depression can be a very confusing process to work through. You feel like you don’t know which way is up, nor do you know how far downwards is.

Recovering from depression takes the courage to be really honest about you, your life and how you are coping with the events or challenges that life brings you.

The first step toward recovery is to define whether you are experiencing depression. From this point, you can take the next step, but you need a starting line. Hence why it is important to be able to do an honest review of your situation.

Remember that everyone has sadness to deal with from time to time, especially if you have had traumatic events in your life and are still processing grief. But depression goes further, it goes on and on and stops you from being able to move forward and experience what the future may bring.

All aspects of your wellbeing are impacted when you are experiencing depression. Here are some ways you could be affected:

Your Mental Wellbeing

I am not good enough. I am not supported. No-one wants to hear what I have to say. I am not understood. Everyone has a better life than me. Everyone around me is happy and I am not. I feel cloudy in my head. I feel agitated all the time. I can’t focus on a task. I cannot get organised. I keep thinking about bad situations over and over.

Your Emotional Wellbeing

I cry a lot, every day. I always feel sad. I feel angry a lot. I feel unworthy. I feel scattered. I feel unhappy all the time. I can’t remember what it is like to be happy. I don’t like doing the things I used to love. I don’t enjoy going out anymore. I don’t want to be with people. I feel hopeless. I feel powerless.

Your Physical Wellbeing

I don’t have an appetite, or, I want to eat all the time, even if I am not hungry. I am tired every day. I have no energy for anything new. I cannot sleep a solid night. My sleep is restless. My body is overly sensitive. I am slow at what I used to be able to do quickly.

Your Spiritual Wellbeing

Regardless of what your spiritual beliefs may be, you may be experiencing the same symptoms: I have been abandoned by God. There is no greater force out there. I am experiencing this completely alone. There is no God.

You may relate to some or many of the above statements. There is no clinical way to diagnose depression, it is really up to you to define for yourself what you are experiencing. Once you have done this part, and it takes courage, then it defines a point from which you can begin your recovery process.

Empower yourself with tools to understand more about your own mental health

Brain9D has diagnosis tools, games and other resources to help you help yourself with problems like depression and anxiety. Try the depression diagnosis or anxiety diagnosis to help you understand where you might be on the acknowledgement/recovery scale. Information such as this will help put things into perspective and empower you to take steps toward your healing.

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