How Do You Know If You Have Depression?

The symptoms above describe clinical depression. The length of time they normally consider is 2 weeks with these symptoms. However if you experience 2or 3 days of it frequently then I would discuss it with my Dr. If during these episodes you have difficulty sleeping and lose interest in things that you normally enjoy, then I would talk to my Dr. I suffer from Depression, which not only expresses in sadness and tears but in numbness and carelessness The "I don't care" syndrome.

These ups and downs are part of life. Like some people who are home sick or missing their home do cry and we don't say that they are suffering from depression; because it is human nature that they feel lonely and depress when nobody is around them.  There are lots of symptoms that ought to be there in order to be diagnosed Major Depressive Disorder disease. A person can be diagnosed MDD if they have at minimum four of the following signs:

1) Difficulties in sleeping
2) Psychomotor retardation or anxiety.

3) Poor appetite and weight loss, or vise versa.

4) Loss of strength.

5) Feelings of uselessness.

6) Difficulty concentrating.

7) Thoughts of death or suicide.
And these symptoms should remain there for at least 2 weeks in order to verify that you are suffering from depression. So just chill you are a normal person.