What are the Physical Depression Signs and Symptoms?

Depression is a mood change where one feels that he/she is hopeless, worthless and everything in his/her life is meaningless. The statistics (2005) of depressive disorder is about 9.5% in America alone or about 18.8 million American people ages 18 years old and above. According to the depression statistics of Australian government, everyone at some point in their life will experience depression.  These findings makes depression a case that should not be taken for granted.

When talking about depression, a lot of people just link it with mental problems. Actually, depression can also cause physical signs and symptoms. These physical features of depression may appear on the onset of depression or days after it was triggered. What should be noted about depression is its possibility to end up in suicide especially for those cases which are not monitored or known by the significant others.

The concept of physical depression signs and symptoms is easy to comprehend. Just imagine you are chased by a killer. You will feel tension on your body, coldness, shivering, sweating and even escalating heart beat. On the other note, if you imagine that you and your friends are walking on a beach, you will feel that your body is well relaxed and your heart is beating calmly. All these are experienced by your body which is brought about by the thoughts that you are entertaining. This scenario explains the concept of causing physical symptoms of depression when dealing with it.

Physical depression signs and symptoms are as follows: headaches, muscle fatigue or back aches, digestive troubles (diarrhoea or constipation), chest pain, insomnia or over sleeping, and loss of appetite or increase in appetite which leads to changes in weight.

Some physical signs and symptoms of depression may indicate deepening mental problem such as chest pain. Many times, these physical signs and symptoms are diagnosed as a medical condition and not as mental condition. For example, generalized body aches may be mistaken as influenza or chest pain as heart problems.

The accompanying physical signs and symptoms of depression make suffers more depressed as they would not be able to go out of their house to mingle with other people or to allow themselves to have a break. Body aches, muscular fatigue and headaches could retain sufferers within the bound of their home. These sufferers could do nothing but to seek the comfort of their bedroom to rest.

Some depressed individuals use their learned defense mechanism to protect themselves from the stress and impact of depression. Some over sleep or over eat because through these, they feel they are safe and more comfortable. Though it is not uncommon for some to experience insomnia and do starvation.

These are the physical signs and symptoms of depression. These conditions disappears once the depression is dealt with.