Recognizing Signs of Major Depression and Suicide Risks

Severe depression greatly affects the health and life of patients. So how to recognize signs of severe depression that are at risk of suicide? What should you do to prevent painful endings? Find out through the article below!

What is major depression?

Depression is divided into 3 different levels: mild depression, moderate depression, and major depression.

Major depression is a serious emotional disorder that makes the sufferer feel very sad, decreased interest, negative thoughts and has a very high risk of suicide. When they are severely depressed, they may harm themselves, have passive thoughts about death or suicidal ideation with or without a specific plan, and, more seriously, attempt to do so. suicidal behavior.

People with major depression may have more severe symptoms. Signs of major depression may include overeating or loss of appetite, changes in appetite leading to weight change, possible significant weight loss or weight gain, difficulty sleeping or sleeping more, and frequent thoughts of what’s going on. die or commit suicide. Severe depression can reduce or lose pleasure in daily life, causing people to isolate themselves from society, not wanting to wake up or leave the house. Other symptoms of depression include forgetfulness, loss of concentration, lack of hesitation and self-assertion. At the same time, people with depression can experience sluggishness in both mental and physical performance. In children and the elderly, irritability and agitation may occur.

Signs of major depression

Major depressive disorder affects mood:

• Makes a person feel sad or negative all the time for a long time, almost every day and most of the day.
• They no longer have the motivation or joy, excitement to do anything like before.

What are the signs of major depression? Some of the symptoms that are more common in people with major depression include:

• Feeling depressed all the time: Feeling sad, or angry at the same time, even when good things happen. Sometimes it’s a feeling of emptiness and hopelessness.
• Sleep disturbance: The patient has trouble falling asleep or sleeping more than usual. Patients may have difficulty falling asleep (takes more than 30 minutes to fall asleep), sleep deeply, or wake up in the middle of the night and may wake up earlier than usual, not recovering energy after a sleep. sleep.
• Eating disorders: People with severe depression, they may change their appetite, appetite: easily lose or gain weight suddenly in a short time.
• Psychomotor retardation or agitation: Some people with major depression often feel sluggish in both thinking and acting. They don’t feel like moving, or move is heavy, slow. Or, conversely, some people will express restlessness, restlessness, even agitation.
• Thoughts of suicide: It is more obvious that the patient often has thoughts of suicide or self-harm. Sometimes it’s just passive death thoughts, for example, they want to sleep and don’t want to wake up. Or there are active thoughts of wanting to die, which may or may not be planned but have not yet been implemented. Or worse, some patients will attempt suicide.
• Loss of Joy: Whether it’s small pleasures or from activities they used to enjoy, with severe depression, sufferers lose or reduce the joy they once had.
• Feelings of guilt and worthlessness: Severe depression can affect self-image and self-esteem. This makes people with depression feel guilty or worthless.
• In very severe cases, people with major depression develop hallucinations or delusions
• Feeling helpless and hopeless.

While it’s not clear exactly when a person experiences major depression, signs of major depression can get worse over time.