What are the symptoms of mild depression?

Depression is a relatively common disease nowadays, but depression can be mild or severe. In mild depression, the initial symptoms are not particularly obvious, but often because people do not pay attention and do not actively receive treatment, the condition worsens and causes severe depression. So what are the symptoms of mild depression? Let’s take a look together below.

Unexplained physical discomfort: Patients with mild depression are often accompanied by a variety of physical symptoms, such as headache, back pain, pain in the limbs, low back pain, etc., but the cause is unknown and the hospital examination cannot find any organic lesions. In some cases, there may be unexplained abdominal distension, diarrhea, anorexia, nausea and stomach discomfort, or unexplained panic, heart palpitations, and discomfort involving all systems and organs in the body. Although various examinations show no abnormalities, the patient will be suspicious, especially suspecting that he or she has a serious illness, and repeated physical examinations are difficult to dispel his doubts.

Always feel that "life is too tiring": Some patients with mild depression will feel low and unhappy in the early stages, and feel that life is too tiring. This emotional reaction may also occur in normal people, but it will persist for a long time in patients with depression. Some patients are "indifferent" to excitement. For example, they are not excited when encountering happy things, but they will get angry if something goes against their wishes. They are easily angered, irritable, sensitive, suspicious, stubborn, and always feel unhappy.

Feeling that life is "meaningless": Some patients with mild depression often feel that life is boring, sigh all day long, or feel "wronged", cry easily, and even have repeated suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Some patients will have a mild sense of "worthlessness", thinking that they have not made any contribution to society, family, relatives and friends, and feel "useless". They have no confidence in themselves and in life, hate to participate in group activities, and prefer to be alone.

Similar to neurasthenia: Disorders such as persistent insomnia and early awakening, forgetfulness, fatigue, headache and other symptoms are also one of the common early symptoms of mild depression. These patients are often diagnosed with "neurasthenia". In addition, patients may also experience a variety of uncomfortable feelings, such as inexplicable feelings of emptiness, fear, loneliness, and compulsion.

The above is an introduction to the symptoms of mild depression. I believe that through the above introduction, you will have a better understanding of the early symptoms of depression. This will help patients detect their condition when it is relatively mild so that they can receive timely treatment. Thereby achieving better results in treatment.