What are the early symptoms of depression?

Depression occurs to all kinds of people. With the development of society, pressures in life and society emerge in an endless stream, leaving many people with no place to relieve stress, leading to depression. However, in life, many people often fail to detect depression in its early stages, which leads to missing the best time for treatment. So what are the early symptoms of depression?

1. Loss of energy, fatigue, and difficulty in doing daily tasks such as washing and dressing. Patients often use "mental breakdown" and "deflated ball" to describe their condition, which is the main characteristic of early depression.

2. Depressed moods vary in degree, ranging from mild bad mood to sadness, pessimism, and despair. The patient feels heavy-hearted, life is meaningless, he cannot be happy, he is depressed, every day feels like a year, he is in unbearable pain and cannot extricate himself. Some early symptoms of depression may also include anxiety, irritability, and nervousness.

3. Loss of interest is one of the early symptoms of depression. Loss of enthusiasm and pleasure in previous life and work, and loss of interest in everything. They cannot experience the joy of family life, are indifferent to past hobbies, often live alone, alienate relatives and friends, and avoid social activities.

pay. Patients often complain of "no emotions", "emotional numbness", and "can't be happy anymore".

4. Negative pessimism: The person feels extremely miserable, pessimistic, and hopeless. He or she feels that life is a burden and not worth lingering on. He or she seeks relief through death and may have strong suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

5. Another symptom of early depression is low self-evaluation: patients tend to over-believe their own abilities, and view their present, past and future with a critical, negative and negative attitude. They think nothing is good and nothing is right, and describe themselves as worthless and with a dark future. Strong sense of self-blame, guilt, uselessness, worthlessness, and helplessness. In severe cases, self-blame and hypochondriasis may occur. Patients present with significant, persistent and widespread depression, difficulty concentrating, memory loss, slow thinking, blocked thinking and slow movements, but some patients show restlessness, anxiety, tension and agitation.