Welcome to ''understand depression- how does depression feels like? -real stories from a depressive person'' course.

This course is especially made for those who want to know more about depression, not only from studies or medical websites but directly from someone who has a depressive disorder. You will get informations on how it actually feels like to have depression and what other struggles you have to deal with. You will see the world from a new and different perspective, something no medical website can tell you.

Depression has many faces, levels, different symptomes but at the end we suffer from the same thing.

In general people do not see a difference between ''depressive'' and ''being depressed'', but the last one is a synonym for ''sad''. It kind is like when we say '' I am starving'', but we mean '' i am hungry''- the difference between Depression and sadness is as big as the difference between actuall starve and just a little appetite.

If you want to know more about it, you should definitely get the course. You won't be disappointed!

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Depression (major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Fortunately, it is also treatable. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease your ability to function at work and at home.

Depression symptoms can vary from mild to severe and can include:

• Feeling sad or having a depressed mood

• Loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed

• Changes in appetite — weight loss or gain unrelated to dieting

• Trouble sleeping or sleeping too much

• Loss of energy or increased fatigue

• Increase in purposeless physical activity (e.g., inability to sit still, pacing, handwringing) or slowed movements or speech (these actions must be severe enough to be observable by others)

• Feeling worthless or guilty

• Difficulty thinking, concentrating or making decisions

• Thoughts of death or suicide

Symptoms must last at least two weeks and must represent a change in your previous level of functioning for a diagnosis of depression.