- Concentration is often impaired
- Inability to experience pleasure
- Increase in self-critical thoughts with a voice in the back of one's mind providing a constant barrage of harsh, negative statements
- Sleep disturbance or unable to fall back to sleep
- Feeling fatigued after 12 hours of sleep
- Decrease in appetite or food loses its taste
- Feelings of guilt, helplessness and/or hopelessness
- Thoughts of suicide
- Increased isolation
- Missing deadlines or a drop in standards
- Change in personality
- Increased sexual promiscuity
- Increased alcohol/drug use
If someone experiences most of the above symptoms for more than two weeks, there is a good chance they are suffering from a clinical depression.
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