5 Signs You Are Severely Depressed, Not Just Sad

Have you been feeling down for days, weeks, or even months, with no end in sight? Depression is not one single disorder with a specific set of symptoms, but instead a continuum of signs, going from mild to more severe. Here are a few signs.

Disclaimer: This video is for informative purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose or treat any condition. Please reach out to a qualified healthcare provider or mental health professional if you are struggling.

Writer: Stela Kosic
Script Editor: Vanessa Tao
Script Manager: Kelly Soong
Animator: Faye Miravalles
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[tblmoon]

not me watching these videos to remind myself that I suffer from depression and that I'm not faking it

[JustaNobody-jx]

Depression is like that demon that constantly gets into your ear telling you that things will never be alright no matter how much you try to make things better for yourself.

[feufeu]

1-Sleeping too much 0:52
2-Social withdrawal 1:40
3-Poor personal hygiene 2:35
4-Losing interest in hobbies and activities 3:32
5-Suicidal thoughts 4:21

Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well ! Don’t forget to drink water and eat !
Have a good day everyone !

[JustaNobody-jx]

Having had severe prolonged depression I often wonder what it’s like to not have depression. It really must feel like living in a completely different world.

[gjrcieg]

Sometimes, life will kick you around, but sooner or later, you realize you’re not just a survivor. You’re a warrior, and you’re stronger than anything life throws your way."

[saenger]

I don't know if my case is severe, but I am surely depressed and have been a long time ago. It was worse before, but never went away.

[Novasium]

me knowing damn well that i'm depressed still surprised that this video just described my life

[Jubbinn_]

Ive talked to a mental health professional about this, i have basically every symptom... but they think i just have anxiety

[blythemusic]

I hate the fact that this is me in every sign, but I don't know how to even explain this to anyone.

[simplyycieraa]

“Because you feel like your forced to joke, smile, laugh, talk “
That hit deeper than I thought it would.

[garchompelago]

This all applied to me back when I was in High school.

I get physically and verbally abused by my classmates because the thought of bullying me was funny to them.

Then when I went home, my cousin who is significally older than me would do the same towards me.

I asked for help from my mother but she is just mad at me for my failing grades. My father isnt with us anymore so I had no choice.

As an act of rebellion and out of frustration, i stopped going to school. By the orders of my mother, she ordered my cousin to physically drag me to school. I skipped all my classes that day. I dont want to see my classmates.

Eventually I asked my uncle for help. I stayed there and when my mom called me through the phone. I angrily demand her to transfer me to a different school and to get my cousin to leave our home. I demanded that she comply because I have no intention of going home unless I am on a safe environment. I told my uncle what was happening and I angrily told my mother that im sick of her talking down on me due to my grades alone while completely disregarding the suffering I was going through.

[MufflesTheGerbil]

For three years I thought my two year long depression finally completely went away. But knowing that once you do something for so long it becomes a habit. While I may think I'm mentally okay my depressive habits have long stayed with me and I haven't acknowledged any of it because I thought mentally being ok was the answer.

I know that I have been doing every single thing that was mentioned in this video. I honestly thought that if I felt okay for long enough all of it would go away. Unfortunately it has not and just trying to put any form of energy into self care feels so unbelievably hard to do. Even just doing the easiest things that I almost always do such as going to wash my hands has just turned into a go to sleep all night and day until everybody from the house is gone or until I feel like it to go wash my hands. It's honestly so bad that I ignore my OCD urges of trying to be clean as possible and cleaning stuff out of my room. I literally have zero energy to do anything, even playing video games to watching videos it's all difficult to do at times.

While it may not be as extreme as when I was 16 Years old where I basically slept 24/7 for months and I meant months for a whole year without opening my eyes or moving in bed for several days with zero food and no water for days until I really had to drink it starving myself to death. (Living in a lucid dream fantasy that was the only place I felt happy) and an insane amount of other things that would be way too long to explain especially because it'll go over YouTube's Character limit like it did last time when I explained it two years ago.

It's still pretty bad.

I honestly just feel useless and a failure to every single person in existence. And it makes me feel worse knowing that I have an IQ higher than the average person with high functioning autism that I am able to completely and 100% control if I really wanted to as long as I don't let my overwhelming emotions and sensations get to me but I obviously can't bottle up those intense feelings forever since they will always come bursting out worse like an overwhelming nuclear explosion. It also doesn't help that I am a highly emotional introvert with extreme anxiety to the point that even if I was completely anonymous online and made a slight sound of my voice in the microphone to even a best friend that I only know online would make me cry so hard because it'd give me the biggest panic attack. Even if I do want to verbally communicate my autism wouldn't allow me to speak the same exact way as how I type, so I just stick with typing to every single person I know because that's the only true way I can express myself fully and properly the exact way I want to instead of being forced to rush out words I never meant because someone is impatient just for them to argue about it to me repeating the same things to be able to fully verbally explain what I wanted to actually say while knowing that I made it clear enough where anybody would understand just for someone to also complain about me repeating the same thing but slightly different over again when it's not my fault. I also hate being so unbelievably good at something for so long just to randomly one day be so bad at it and completely loss that skill having to restart all over because I stopped doing it do something completely different for one to two days. It's honestly extremely demotivating just knowing that and I blame it on my Autism I can be insanely slow at learning something but when I know how to actually do something I excel at it a crazy amount but lose that skill instantly for some reason both in memory and muscle memory when I do something else for not even that long. I honestly hate it and now I'm going to stop typing before I accidentally go way off the topic and not talking about what's causing my depression anymore.

I know venting something with a psychologist or best friend is way better to do instead of randomly online but I don't have those options at least for right now. Just getting something I've never told to a single soul before about myself is enough to make me feel a little better about myself but it obviously will never fix my horrible habits that have been hard wired to my brain that will be overwhelmingly difficult to cut away and replace with way better ones which I am aware will painfully take a very long time to do.

[jwanie]

I’ve had all of these signs at one point. But I’ve managed to persevere because I know the people who care about me would be devastated if I decided not to live anymore

[niasiamack]

I grew up with depression and by watching your video it helpful to me it tells me I'm not alone

[darkreaper]

I'm suffering from severe Depression & anxiety, here's a few symptoms

- Constantly Feeling sadness & emptiness
-Feeling worthless & hopeless
-Lost interest in hobbies
-Fatigue
-changing sleeping patterns & difficult falling a alsleep
-Low Self-esteem
-overthinking
-having regrets
-Feeling inferior to everyone
-insecure
-lack of purpose
-ongoing Trauma
-Pessimistic thinking & Suicide ideation that comes & goes

[BWKing]

I have had these signs today, just goes to show some of us are not fine. Thanks for putting this to my attention, I appreciate the team a lot for this one

[thefriendlyelephant]

I relate the most to the 1st and 5th symptoms.

I do stay in bed a lot either playing video games, listening to YouTube, watching VTubers, and listening to ASMR. I have trouble sleeping at times from either nightmares or I stay in bed because I want to sleep more. These are my best escapes from reality. I often do just lay down, put some ASMR on, and sleep, because I don't want to be in this reality. It's evil, it's depressing, and I wish I had a permanent escape. Which does bring me to suicidal thoughts.

Last year was the hardest and darkest year of my life. I didn't make any attempts but heavily considered it. 2 times I was the closest to making an attempt. Both for the exact same reason with the second time being the hardest. I keep seeing signs that this world doesn't want me in it. I see myself as a waste of a human life. I wish I was born different because then maybe I would be accepted for who I am. I wish I was gone because not only would my suffering end, but the world would be one step closer to a happier place

[gjrcieg]

No matter how bad things are right now. No matter how stuck you feel. No matter how many days you’ve spent crying and wishing things were different. No matter how hopeless and depressed you feel. I promise you that you won’t feel this way forever. Keep going.”

[NIGHTFIVV]

I wish i wouldn't be in a s*itty mental health state as mine, because I'm suffering for 5 years now and even my parents (after a suicidal attempt) don't want me to go to the therapist or anything like that and the social withdrawal made it so I can't have any friends and I got the ability to negate my feelings of love, so I have a very low chance of survival till the next year if this continues, because I'll not handle this anymore. Oh, and since I can remember I didn't have any dreams to accomplish, but now my 3 dreams are: to finally end this, or to finally cry, because I couldn't for 4 YEARS and that hurts me, or to have someone close to "see" my inside emotions and help me through my life, but that's just is a dream so it will not come true, especially since it's a my dream

[thlouht]

For anyone else suffering from depression, my heart goes out to you😢❤️
Sleep is my favourite thing ATM, why? I can't be hurt by anyone when I'm asleep. Plus I don't have to face the reality of whatever painful situation I'm in or have been through. It's no way to live, just existing.
I'm thankful for everyone who has been trying to help, you know who you are 🧡
I'm about to get the help I need just got to wait a few days for the appointment (hate waiting, ADHD brains are a bit impatient 😊)
I have hope 🧡