Do you need help in
determining your depression cause?
According to “Human Givens” there is a criteria that can help
determine as to whether you are suffering from clinical depression.
When someone exhibits 5 or more of
the following clinical depression symptoms including either 1 of the
first 2 for at least a 2 week period they are considered to be clinical
depressed.
Depressed mood.
Loss of pleasure or interest in
usual activities.
Disturbance of appetite.
Sleep disturbance.
Psychomotor retardation or agitation.
Loss of energy.
Feelings of worthlessness and guilt.
Difficulties in thinking.
Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
Sleep disturbance.
Psychomotor retardation or agitation.
Loss of energy.
Feelings of worthlessness and guilt.
Difficulties in thinking.
Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
Depression cause is not necessarily
a result of a chemical imbalance
but down to our reaction and responses to our environments. Attributional
styles play a major part in our internal and external locus of control.
In other words; how we make sense of
the world and why things happen.