depression symptoms in men

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Q: What are the symptoms of depression in men?

A: it depends really. you may have some or all of the symptoms. varies from person to person. -
Signs and symptoms of depression
There’s a vast difference between “feeling depressed” and suffering from clinical depression. The despondency of clinical depression is unrelenting and overwhelming. Some people describe it as “living in a black hole” or having a feeling of impending doom. They can’t escape their unhappiness and despair. However, some people with depression don’t feel sad at all. Instead, they feel lifeless and empty. In this apathetic state, they are unable to experience pleasure. Even when participating in activities they used to enjoy, they feel as if they’re just going through the motions. The signs and symptoms vary from person to person, and they may wax and wane in severity over time.

Depression Signs and Symptoms
Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness
A bleak outlook—nothing will ever get better and there’s nothing you can do to improve your situation.

Loss of interest in dailly activities
No interest in or ability to enjoy former hobbies, pastimes, social activities, or sex.

Appetite or weight changes
Significant weight loss or weight gain—a change of more than 5% of body weight in a month.

Sleep changes
Either insomnia or oversleeping (also known as hypersomnia).

Psychomotor agitation or retardation
Either feeling “keyed up” and restless or sluggish and physically slowed down.

Loss of energy
Feeling fatigued and physically drained. Even small tasks are exhausting or take longer.

Self-loathing
Strong feelings of worthlessness or guilt. Harsh criticism of perceived faults and mistakes.

Concentration problems
Trouble focusing, making decisions, or remembering things.

Irritability
Easily annoyed or frustrated. Lashing out in anger or snapping at others.

Aches and pains
New or worse physical symptoms, including headaches, backaches, diarrhea or constipation, abdominal pain, and aching joints.

People suffering from depression often show distorted thinking. Everything looks bleak to them, and they hold extremely negative views about themselves, their situation, and the future. Trapped in their pessimism, they obsess over their problems and blow them out of proportion. Unable to see a light at the end of the tunnel, they may even start to see suicide as their only way out.

Q: What is the big deal about Xanax? What is the longest the Rx can be used?
I recently started a prescription for a low dose of Xanax, basically for anxiety and depression related symptoms. Man, this stuff really helps me out. I am able to function so much better on so many levels and really the only draw back is that it makes me sleepy.

Let me just say that I used to work in a pharmacy, and I understand the addictive properties of this drug and how people can and will abuse it. Even though my doctor understands that this is not going on, she told me today that they don’t like to continue Xanax for more than a couple of months and she also reffered me to a psychiatrist. I’m just wondering what the big fear of “more than a couple of months” is if it’s a) obviously working and working well and b) I’m exhibiting no signs of abuse etc. and keeping up with all my scheduled appointments? Now I know hydrocodone was a big deal because I learned in the pharmacy it’s basically like synthetic heroin or an opiate. I wasn’t of the understanding that Xanax was like that or had any properties like that and that people basically just abused it with alcohol or took like a whole bunch at a time. Am I missing something that I don’t know about this drug?

Here’s the thing: if it really works for me, why stop it? I don’t show any signs of addiction, I’m not asking the pharmacy over and over for them to fax the doctor for more refills than I was prescribed, and I’m not drinking or taking more than I should be. She only wrote it for one more month for once a day even though we talked about me needing it more. Before I had it three times a day and I was only taking it once a day because I didn’t want to abuse it. I simply just said that I thought some days I needed it twice, but not all days. When I forget to take it, a lot of anxiety I have over germs, and money is heightened and I start really freaking out. I can’t even use a public restroom on the days I forget and sometimes I get really angry or lash out. My husband will even be like, “Honey, take your medicine” because he notices how bad I get and I told my doctor and she was like “that is good that he sees that”.

I don’t want anyone to suggest that I start smoking weed. I’m sorry but that’s not even the same thing. Sometimes weed can make anxiety/depresssion worse and I have a job that is more important than getting high and I have a child that I don’t want to be high around. I don’t want to depend on something illegal anyway. So case closed on that and no one mention it, please.

So, I’m not trying to look like a pill head here, but I really need to know when I go to this psychiatrist what to say to make him continue the Rx. I also want to know, even though I’ve read up on side effects, compounds, and everything -what it is that makes doctors NOT want to let anyone continue this drug, even if it’s helping?

A: Much like chronic pain, chronic anxiety is best managed by longer-acting drugs that reduce the incidence/severity of (a) rebound hypervigilance (which you’ve experienced when you missed a dose), and (b) physiological dependence.

Dependence follows habituation, and the severity of clinical habituation is inversely related to a drug’s half-life.

Even though both Xanax and Klonopin are benzodiazepines, for example, physicians are reluctant to use Xanax for long-term monotherapy for good reason.

Having had experince in working in a pharmacy, you’re probably aware of alternatives to Xanax and that some of these aren’t even benzos (e.g. BuSpar, Lyrica, Inderal, Paxil, and Elavil).

Anyway, your goal seems to be in finding a way to continue with Xanax because it works (for now); I can understand your logic but suggest a better goal would be to able to function well over the long term.

Xanax is often prescribed in the acute period following a diagnosis of some form of anxiety disorder, but its short half-life makes it a poor drug in the long-term. If I could sway you in any way, my advice would be to keep an open mind and talk to the psychiatrist about an option other than continuing with Xanax.

The goals of prescribing medications for chronic anxiety are to achieve quick symptom relief (e.g. with an initial course of rapid-acting anxiolytics) then symptom remission by switching to an anxiolytic with a more stable plasma profile to prevent rebound anxiety and habituation/dependence (i.e. by prescribing anxiolytics with longer half-lives which provide longer durations of action for maintenance therapy.

Seeing as Xanax works for you now, Klonopin (clonazepam) would likely work because both bind to the same (GABA-A) receptors in the brain. As an added benefit, a metabolite of Klonopin (7-aminoclonazepam) also works as a weak partial benzodiazepine receptor agonist to provide a smoother, longer-lasting anxiolytic drug profile than Xanax.

The provision of long-lasting relief is key to the success of any med. for chronic anxiety disorders … the psychiatrist you’re scheduled to see knows this and may have a better strategy. Why not talk over your options with him/her, ask questions, and decide what’s best for you in the long-term?

Q: Do I have bipolar disorder or depression?
I was diagnosed with depression but didn’t tell the doctor about my hyperactivity and decreased sleep and my mania symptoms. After that I was referred to a psychiatrist but he was busy and so I now I have to wait months before i can see the psychiatrist.

I’m a male and I had symptoms of depression in men as well as bipolar disorder. first i was feeling hyperactive alll of a sudden and noticing i was getting less sleep and i was very energetic and was obsessed with trying to be perfect. Like I was trying to do what a healthy person does – exercise alot, socialise etc. But then within a week my energy died and i started getting more sleep than usual and i was tired from all the exercise i did the previous week. My mood was usually blank rather than depressed.

Then one week later I was feeling tired all the time, losing interest in activities once enjoyed, social withdrawal etc. I saw the doctor and was told i had depression.

Now its been one month since my diagnosis and I’ve gotten used to the fact that im depressed. But two weeks ago i started feeling guilty and worthless, having delusions, worrying, stress and anxiety, and having suicidal thoughts. I am also feeling like im less of a male. oh and my mood swings have kicked in again from hypomanic to depressed.

Help do i have bipolar or depression?
also i google alot about what i think i have. should i be doing this or just go to the doctor.
i mean i did go to the doctor to get diagnosed and all that. but should i be visiting the doctor more and wasting time or googling it?

A: Im in college to become a psychologist so take this with some heart, but im not saying anything for fact. If you feel like you want to go see the world and feel great (it can last from 1 day to 6 months), but then feel truly depressed, then you do probably have biploar disorder, some relatives of mine have it too. it often gets mistaken because the fact that you may remain depressed for some weeks, and as soon as you involved the word mania, it is usually bipolar disorder, its easily curable, just gets misdiagnosed often,my friend also has it too, so dont feel you are the only one. But the main reason it gets misdiagnosed is because the fact that the doctor is not their with you every minute of your day, and may not see the other things happening. But if you do feel like you are changing moods, then I would suggest looking farther into it, a psychologist will help

Q: Pre-natal depression in men?..?
I think my boyfriend has pre-natal depression, he has some really noticeable symptoms but what other signs are there to look for?
We are having our 1st baby and ive read that it is possible for men to get it.

A: There is no such thing. Men cannot have pre-natal depression because they cannot be in a state of ‘pre-natal’. However he may be suffering from plain old depression while you are pregnant, you may suggest that he talk to a doctor about it. Pregnancy is a very difficult time for women and their partners, and if he is suffering from depression rather than apprehensive or anxious it would be best if he dealt with it now rather than after the baby is born, when you will have less energy and time to support him.

Q: What is the Independent and Dependent Variable for this problem, also state the null hypothesis?
A research study was done on Seasonal depression and the effectiveness of Light Therapy Lamps in men vs. women over a time period of 6 weeks. The men and women were given a survey on depression at the beginning of the treatment, and the same men and women were given the the exact same survey at the end of the treatment. The research stated that at the end of treatment women were reporting less depressive symptoms than men.

Also if possible state the null hypothesis, and the research hypothesis.

A: dependant = level of depression since it is the result obtained in the experiment(light therapy)
independant = gender since it is the only variable that could be changed
null hupothesis = assumption that no relation exists in this experiment = there is no relation between gender and the effectiveness of light therapy lamps in the treatment of depression
research hypothesis = the aim of this experiment = a relationship exists between gender and the effectiveness of light therapy lamps in treating depression(note: the research hypothesis is a broad statements that depends on initial assumptions and since it is not mentioned that researchers speculated that light therapy lamps are more effective with women, you cannot say that the research hypothesis is that light therapy lamps are more effective with women)

Q: How much of a contribution does PMS have to women’s problems in communication with men?
I’m sure I’m touching a nerve here in 2 ways, claiming that women have communication problems with men along with hypothesizing that PMS is a big contributor to this problem. So, go ahead and react. Try to understand that I have great compassion for health problems, having fibromyalgia, depression, GAD, and food sensitivities myself. Also, many men have PMS-like symptoms, although they aren’t as related to such a reliable syndrome. My ex was pretty reasonable 25 days of the month, but said horrible things during her entire cycle. I tried different methods to manage it, but she always found a way to sneak in nastiness and disingenuous indirectness during her cycle.
Any thoughts?
Mafiagirl, I have to politely disagree. I think women should get a pass for this, if they’d help their man help her with this problem. Of course, they’d have to admit there’s a problem, which seems to be extremely difficult for a lot of women.
DiedreO, I tried to communicate with her about it, to find out how I could be most helpful. But, you’re right, she had very poor character, and this was one of many deathnells (sp?) of the relationship.

A: As ancient as I am I should be going through it; now the good news is there is good news so that many of us won’t have to suffer, and when we don’t suffer we are far better people. I for example take Genseng for woman, maintan a good attitude, involve mysel in things, such as coloring, as I did when I was a kid, never watch news, try to watch as many cartoons and funny shows I can, and always maintain that string of communication unwound and untangled. What I’m saying is that it doesn’t have to be and it doesn’t need to be a problem with our communication with men.

Q: Is the date rape of men by women a serious and unrecognized problem?
Please don’t dismiss this as a joke before looking at the sources because this is serious.

At least two academic studies have shown that men are coerced into sex almost as much as women.

One, appearing in the peer reviewed journal ‘Sex Roles’, conducted at Washington University:

http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/1999archive/07-99archive/k072699.html

“Overall, 34 men (21 percent of the male participants) and 36 women (28 percent) reported being recipients of one or more of five types of unwanted sexual contact. The study also showed that men who experienced unwanted sexual contact reported more symptoms of depression than the other males in the study.”

And another study, in the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality conducted at the University of Guelph shows the same:

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=f926b44a-39c9-4c7d-bc44-24001f40c213

“A study of 518 university students found that 38.8% of men reported being pressured into a range of sexual activity.”
These men who sought to remain chaste in the face of adultery are being pressured into sin by women and are becoming depressed as a result.

What can we do to raise awareness about this serious threat to men’s moral purity?
To meet the legal definition of date rape someone does not have to be physically forced.

A: By calling it “rape” (which these studies don’t do) you made it easy for these women to dismiss it.

The fact is men ARE frequently sexually assaulted by women. If a man grabs your crotch, it’s sexual assault. Same as if a woman grabs mine. But no one has done a damn thing about it when it’s happened to me, certainly not the condescending feminist hypocrites.

And notice, even though these articles WERE in peer-reviewed journals, the feminists poo-pooed it. The only legitimate research is that which confirms their holier than thou victimhood.

By the way, in my case, the girl said “I wanted to see if it was true about black men” after I told her to get off me. So it was sexual assault and a racist thing, but school administration didn’t do a damn thing and I was told I should be flattered.

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read the articles if you want to know who the peers are.

And note the very first thing I said was that he misrepresented it by saying “date rape”. I am well aware of the distinction and was quick to make it. Men can be raped by women, especially younger smaller men or men who are drugged, but it is MUCH rarer. Sexual assault of men is not.

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btw, I ALWAYS report it when someone posts a joke about rape. Most recently today with stale white male. I take rape very seriously.

Whichever feminist gave me a thumbs down for reporting MY experience is just a cupid stunt.

CANDICE THANK YOU

BELLA THANK YOU

And thanks to all the other women who haven’t sold their humanity to their ideology which demands a monopoly on victimhood.

Q: does anyone know anything about serious depression in adult men? can anyone please help/advise me?
I am getting increasingly more and more worried about my boyfriend of 5 years. We are 28, we live together and have always been very happy and in love but he has always been prone to mood swings and at the moment he is going through the worst one I have ever seen. He has never seen a doctor and is not on any medication but myself and his family are trying to work out a way to get him to see someone.
This particular mood has now lasted for nearly a month and I believe has been triggered by the fact that he is facing redundancy, here are his symptoms i’ve noticed and that he has said he feels…..
has no interest in anything anymore
sees everyone as being against him and that the world is a scary, evil place
feel like he’s be better off dead
feels like everyone gangs up on him and that it’s him against the world
doesn’t have any thoughts/ideas/motivation anymore
constanly tired
threathens suicide
doesn’t know who I am and has been sleeping in the spare room for the last few weeks
doesn’t take his friends up on social invitations/events and then sits and complains about having no friends and that noone wants him
feelings of self loathing/hated/low self worth
talks about how badly off he and basically wallowing in self pity even though he and we have everyone most people would like and he actually has nothing to be depressed about
self medicates on drugs which i’m sure must make him feel worse
won’t let me anywhere near him emotionally anymore
gets angry and then doesn’t remember what he said when ranting ( gets unreasonable, rude and obnoxious)
sometimes gives the silent treament
incapable of thinking about someone else’s feelings
thinks everyone else in life feels the same way he does or that it must just be a trick against him and that everyone is laughing at him
incapable of just sitting down and “chilling out”, constanly ringing his hands and pacing up and down in a state of anxiety
will end our relationship (but won’t move out) and say that he can never remember ever being happy.

I feel like I don’t know my boyfriend at the moment and I feel helpless, he’s busy pushing me away so hard and doesn’t seem to see how this is affecting me or our relationship. Most of the time when he gets like this he will suddenly snap out of it and be normal again but this time seems a lot worse.
does this sound like depression? thank you so much for any help!

A: It sounds like he is constantly worrying (depressed) about the situation at his work (redundancy) to the point that he can’t stop thinking about it. I suspect if this situation changed he would get better straight away.

If you wanted to help you could either try to take his mind off this problem by encouraging him to go out with you and his friends and do the things that both of you like to do. (Or even things he doesn’t like if they take his mind off it). If he can manage to forget I think he would act normal and would feel better.

You could also help him to tackle the problem he is worrying about, possibly by helping him to look for and apply for other jobs.

Also remember there are other people there who can help him so its not all on you. His family/friends and also doctors could help.

Q: What to do? Mental Breakdown? Depression? Symptoms of Mental Breakdowns and Depression,?
I’ve been depressed for fours years now caused by the death of my father and loss of parenting my my mother. My mom acts like she a teenager and fools around with men, my older sister is doing the same she’s sexually active since the age of fifteen, and keeps on being sexually active she’s seventeen now. Another older sister just a had a baby, and now my other sister is pregnant. It bothers me how my mom doesn’t even care about my sisters’ pregnancies or sex life. I can’t take it I’m forbidden to talk to any of my relatives because of numerous reasons. I’ve quit regular school because I don’t care, I was an honor student and am now attending online school. My oldest sister said she can”t wait til my mom dies to inherit money, we told my mom but she didn’t care. I lost all of my friends due to my familys rude comments, calling them fat and ugly.
I haven’t been able to eat all day, if I do it’s snacking on chocolate. I’ve been crying and just can’t stop. It hurts so bad i want to runaway, I’ve even resulted to cutting myself before. Everyone in my family thinks i’m over dramatic. But how would you feel if you think your the cause of your dad’s death? How would you feel if you answered the door to a corner telling you your father died? I can’t stand it. My mom doesn’t care I don’t know what’s going on. I wish I could stop living just to see my father, he actually cared about me. I’m only fifteen.
Is this a breakdown ? I don’t know what to do. I want to talk to my mother but she has another boyfriend spending the night. My sisters don’t care. I’m so lost.

A: Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes

Be cool, relax. Take a deep breathe until you control yourself. Start sharing with praying. Eat healthy food. Do sport. Find some hobbies. Keep searching the solution progressively. Enjoy live in balance. Ora et Labora.

Shalom, God Loves U always

Q: Are more “androgynous” men more likely to seek mental health care than their more “masculine” counterparts?
“Older men are less likely to receive care for depression because of a self-image that discourages expression of symptoms.

Among the reasons found in prior research are more negative attitudes among men toward seeking help for mental health problems, lower disclosure rates of depressive symptoms, lower rates of health service use, and more “atypical” presentations of depression.

Hinton and his team found that, compared with older women, older men were much less likely to …recognize and describe symptoms of depression, and to have received prior treatment for depression. The interviews identified factors that were important contributors to the gender disparities: the manner in which men experience and express their depression, traditional masculine values, and the stigma of depression.

The IMPACT interviewees reported that older men experience and express their depression in ways that do not fit well with diagnostic criteria, making a diagnosis more difficult. Some of the IMPACT principals speculated that older men “might have more difficulty accessing and recognizing their feelings,” while others believed men were “actively trying to conceal or mask their depression.” For example, one primary care provider, when asked if men present their depression differently from women, said, “They try to hide it, basically, whereas women are more open and they come and talk … because it is their nature for some reason.”

Older men often described as “old school” or the “John Wayne type” were considered difficult to diagnose and treat “because they perceived the cultural meaning of depression to be in conflict with their own view of themselves as men,”

One depression care manager cited stigma to explain the greater tendency of men to express their depression in physical rather than emotional terms. The manager said, “They will not say, ‘I feel sad’ or ‘I feel depressed.’ They’ll say, ‘I have a stomach ache.’” A primary care physician described a depressed and psychotic older man who was expressing suicidal thoughts, but nevertheless was unwilling to see a psychiatrist because he feared it would “mark him as crazy.”
http://psychcentral.com/news/2006/09/28/male-stereotypes-hinder-depression-care/288.html
‘Male Stereotypes Hinder Depression Care’

A: More traditional men are probably less likely to admit that they have an emotional problem. Nothing new in that.

However this is changing. In America ordinary everyday men cry on TV. Even John McCain: but he has a reason to right now ….

Q: Past causing depression problems/symptoms?
Okay, lately ive been very depressed about some things that i have done in my past. My one friend of a long time called me to go to a party once, so we ended up going to a gay house, filled with men dressed up like drag queens. I bared with it and kept my cool, but after about a half hour i had walked home, its just not what im into, im straight as a pencil, so during this half hour, someone had rolled a blunt of marijuana and i had taken a few hits off of it. The one thing i am depressed about is smoking after gay people, in a way it eats me up inside knowing that i had done this, i am not sure why, i guess its because i had my mouth on something they had, and i feel my mouth was where ever their mouth was (if you know what i mean by that, and thats not only gay people, thats everyone). The other thing that has bothered me is that in the past, i have hung out and smoked with a couple scummy people, and i mean scumbags (not willingly), and i am not like this at all, im a very clean cut kid, (im only 18) i dress in hollister, abercrombie, etc, not to categorize myself either, just giving you some facts about me, im also a very manly guy (my life consists of football and hunting). My question is why are these things seeming to get to me? I dont understand why i get upset, even though i myself know i am no where near scummy, or homosexual? Its been eating me alive, and lately its been very depressing. Another thing i have wondered is, have other people gone through these situations in life similiar to mine? i dont know if im the only one who has hung out with scumbags before? (im being honest) All answers greatly appreciated, i need the help and support. Please dont come on and make rediculous remarks about me bashing homosexuals, i am just giving you my situation so i get an accurate answer. This is a serious question, thank you for helping me out guys.

A: You have low self confidence but it comes with age.
More accurately it comes following accomplishment.
Doing something with your life to take pride in will give you the confidence you need to see something like this evening as inconsequential as it was.

Q: Do you think I am suffering from Chronic Depression? *link to symptoms*?
Here is the link. Please read all the symptoms or whatever else you would like to please:

http://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/chronic-depression-dysthymia

SORRY IT’S SO LONG.
For the last year, I haven’t been feeling my normal self. I’ve been losing a lot of my friends lately for some important reasons, my mom and I don’t get along anymore at all (constantly arguing), and my dad and I barely talk to each other anymore due to his new love, Kim. The dad thing has hurt me the most because my dad and I have been best friends since I was just a baby (I would always want to go to my daddy.) I feel like he’s a friend whom I can trust but now she comes in out of nowhere and is living with him now, takes over the whole house, including my room. MY room! my DAD’s room is PINK! PINK!!!? Not only that, but she took down EVERYTHING I made my dad. Pictures of HER, HER family, HER children: ALL OVER THE HOUSE. Oh, my pictures? All in the corner. Hidden behind the couch. Around 150 pictures of her and her family and around 3 of me hidden. I feel as if I am not at home, but someone elses, whom I dislike strongly. Very much. My dad is amazing when she’s not there, the same old dad I’ve known for years. But when SHE’s THERE, let’s just say I don’t know what the new man did with my dad.

But anyways onto the symptoms (I will tell you which are true to me.):
Persistent sad or empty feeling-YES. I always feel empty. Like no one is there for me and I have no one to talk to. Hence, Yahoo Answers. I always feel sad and very unhappy. I fake my smile and I have not been happy for almost a year. I never feel good.

Difficulty sleeping (sleeping too much or too little)-YES. At night it takes me almost an hour to go to sleep because I think about all my problems and about all the bad things in my life and if anyone would even miss me if or when I died.

Insomnia (early morning awakening)-NOT REALLY. For the last two days I woke up quite early around 7:30. But not sure why…

Feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and worthlessness-VERY MUCH SO. I feel all of these SO much. I feel hopeless, helpless, and worthless because I feel like I have no point in living and like I don’t really have anyone who cares about me. I feel useless and as if I am not doing anything and I don’t really belong in this world.

Feelings of guilt-NO. I do not feel quilty; I haven’t done anything bad to anyone, or anything. This is not a symptom of mine.

Loss of interest or the ability to enjoy oneself-VERY. I never want to do anything and I just want to go home. I always want to go home so I can cry. I never want to go shopping anymore (but I used to be a shoppaholic.) For instance, today we went shopping (my sister and I) and I didn’t look around at all. She offered for me to get my nails done and I said no, but before I would have said yes in a second. I never want to do anything fun it feels like.

Loss of energy or fatigue-NO. I like walking or jogging, or dancing and have been wanting to do so for several days but my mom doesn’t want me walking alone. I don’t really have any friends here at the moment to go walking with..

Difficulty concentrating, thinking or making decisions-YES AND NO. I have difficulty concentrating, but I am still okay with the decisions part.

Changes in appetite (overeating or loss of appetite)-YES, MAJORLY. I have lost 14 pounds. I am never hungry anymore. And when I do get a slight urge of hungriness, I eat a few bites of a sandwhich or something, then I get full. I practically never eat anymore. Hence, the losing 14 pounds. I am NOT anorexic though. I don’t starve myself.I have a question about what was wrong with my appetite, I’ll like it in a few minutes if you would like to read it.

Observable mental and physical sluggishness-NOT REALLY. I don’t like to do things I love anymore though.

Persistent aches or pains, headaches, cramps, or digestive problems that do not ease even with treatment-YES. I have been getting dizzy a lot lately and I have been having slight headaches, but mostly just dizziness. I have not tried medicine for this though.

Thoughts of death or suicide-I am not planning on harming myself in anyway, but I do think every night that people would not miss me if I was gone and not alive. I feel as though if I commited suicide, not many people would really care. I never feel happy anymore so suicide would be the option to feeling no more pain. But that is not right and I am not planning on ending my life anytime soon. I do not plan on doing anything like this.

A: yes its a really good possibility that you suffer from this depression i hope you and your family life gets better Mary Beth. maybe u should talk to your doctor about it, just know that if something did happen to you, even though i hardly know you i would miss you and im pretty sure a ton of others would too. i really do hope you start to feel happy again tho best wishes to you

Q: Is it possible I have low testosterone levels at age 20?
I watched a television program last night, in which a 50+ man described his symptoms: low sex drive, depression, irritability, anxiety, lack of energy, trouble with sleep muscle loss etc. and he was diagnosed with low testosterone levels? I can notice most of these symptoms in myself and i’m a male only aged 20. Is it common for men of my age to suffer from low testosterone? Could these symptoms point to anything else? should i visit the GP?

A: i had to see my doctor bout this to see if have i had low testosterone because my voice hadnt broke if yor concern bout i would go see yor doctor cause u will only keep worring bout it and u will come ill

Q: I need to know of a good anti-depressant for young men (18 y/o)?
I’ve just come to the realization 5 minutes ago (after reading up on symptoms of depression in young adults and teenagers) that I’m depressed, and I have been depressed for about 4 years now without any kind of treatment at all, and so I’ve finally decided to act on it.

I’m not in a spectacular financial situation at the moment, especially since I’m saving up to go to college, so I would prefer that the medication be somewhat inexpensive (comparably).

Thanks for your help!

A: I have tried different types of antidepressants and Prozac is number 1 in my book. I love it! I have been on it for almost 2 years and my depression is very minimal. It makes me sleep good at night and I feel good all day long! I am on 40mg of it and its awesome! I usually get it from Easterndrugs. It works fine for me, i hope it works for you too as well. I would recommend this to anyone that has depression and anixety and OCD.

Q: Should I visit a psychologist? Are these symptoms of depression?
I used to be a positive person when I was way younger, but the latest years I have been turned into very negative. Like for example, because I was unable to fullfill some of my goals, but seeing friends of mine fulfill them I gave up in a way, saying that my actions are useless. And actually my parents agreed that I can’t succeed in this life and such. (I want to mention that I don’t have a good relationship with my parents.)
Also love was never a big part in my life, years ago I tried getting some guys I wanted, but I failed. And even now, I want some man, but I don’t think I can have him.

I have a few friends, they always cheer me up and I feel fine when I am around them or I talk to them online. However some of the others are snobs, speaking about their studies a lot, so to make me feel uncomfortable because I don’t study. I liked some certain college but the money is a lot and I cannot afford it. But most of times I want to be alone, I spend more time alone in my room away from the others. And generally I don’t want to be around friends a lot, I prefer loneliness. I just keep saying to myself that I am a failure.

Should I visit a psychologist? Also would you call that depression or what?

A: Yes, I think visiting a counselor or psychologist would benefit you and help with the problems you are describing. You may be depressed but it is difficult to tell from the details you’ve provided here.

try taking a test such as these ones:

http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/depression_abridged_access.html

http://www.depressedtest.com/

they are not a diagnosis but they may help you to decide whether you want to seek help. The best first step if you think you are depressed is to visit your GP and you can be referred to a therapist from there

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