What are the symptoms of depression and anxiety?

In this noisy society, many people unknowingly struggle with depression due to pressure from work or life. So what are the symptoms of anxious depression?

1. Loss of appetite and weight loss: Depression affects people’s appetite. Most patients have loss of appetite and poor appetite. Delicious food is no longer tempting. Patients lose their appetite or find food tasteless, often accompanied by weight loss.

2. Heavy mood: The degree of depression varies from mild bad mood to sadness, pessimism, and despair. The patient feels heavy-hearted, life is meaningless, he cannot be happy, he is depressed, the days are like years, the pain is unbearable, and he cannot extricate himself. Symptoms of anxious depression can also include anxiety, irritability, and nervousness.

3. Pessimism: Depressed patients may also be pessimistic and negative. They feel very miserable, pessimistic, and hopeless, and think that life is a burden and not worth lingering on. They may have strong suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

4. Loss of interest: Some patients with depression will lose their enthusiasm and interest in life and work, and have no interest in anything. They cannot experience the joy of family life, and they are disdainful of their previous hobbies. They often live alone, alienate relatives and friends, and avoid socializing. Patients often complain that they have "no emotions", "emotional numbness", and "can't be happy anymore".

5. Day-night changes: The patient's mood changes from worse during the day to better at night. The patient falls into a low mood in the early morning or morning, and gradually improves in the afternoon or evening, and can have a brief conversation and eat. The incidence of day-night changes is about 50%.

6. Loss of energy: Depressed patients will feel tired and weak, and even washing, dressing, and other small things in life are difficult and strenuous, and they are unable to do it. Patients often use "mental breakdown" and "deflated ball" to describe their condition.

7. Sleep disorders: People suffering from depression will also have sleep disorders. Typical sleep disorders are waking up early, 2 to 3 hours earlier than usual, not being able to fall asleep again after waking up, and falling into a sad atmosphere.

8. Low self-evaluation: What are the symptoms of anxious depression? Patients often underestimate their own abilities and view their present, past and future with a critical, negative and negative attitude. They think that this is not good and that is not right. They say that they are worthless and their future is bleak. They have strong self-blame, guilt, uselessness, worthlessness and helplessness. In severe cases, they may have self-blame and hypochondria.

9. Decreased sexual function: Depressed patients will have obvious symptoms of decreased sexual function. Decreased sexual desire may occur in the early stages of the disease. Male patients may experience decreased sexual desire, while female patients may experience loss of sexual desire.

10. The patient presents with marked, persistent, and widespread depression, with difficulty concentrating, memory loss, dull thinking, closed thinking, and slow movements, but some patients also show restlessness, anxiety, tension, and agitation.

Now everyone has an understanding of the symptoms of anxiety. When people suffer from anxiety, they will experience many symptoms. Everyone should understand this and go to a regular hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time if the above symptoms occur.