how do you know if you're depressed in order to be diagnosed with depression you must have five of the nine for at least two weeks first depressed mood people may say they feel sad hopeless or even empty second symptom being unable to enjoy anything we call this anhedonia so things that you used to enjoy you just don't get any pleasure out of anymore then there's weight loss or weight gain of five percent or a decrease in or increase in appetite insomnia or hypersomnia fifth symptom being slowed or restless i've had some patients tell me they
can tell when their depression is coming on because they feel their limbs getting really heavy another symptom is being tired or having low energy all day then there's feeling worthless or having excessive guilty feelings you can have trouble thinking or concentrating and making decisions so therefore depression can also cause memory problems and then we have thinking about death or or thinking about killing yourself
