Monday's blue and Tuesday To

Woke up this morning feeling like I hadn't had any sleep, and that someone had stolen all my energy. I have said in an earlier blog about some of the physical aspects of depression. All too often when people think about depression they purely think in terms of people being sad and down, but there is so much more to it. My depression has also meant developing a social phobia, panic attacks, a lack of self confidence and self esteem, and insomnia. On the physical side it has result in a great increase in migraines, pain in my neck and shoulders caused by tension, have developed IBS and when the depression is bad I have a distinct lack of energy. These are my extras to depression, someone else with depression will have similar and different symptoms. Just like all things people cannot be simply lumped together under one simplified category heading.

A diagnosis of depression doesn't mean that all you are experiencing are feeling of sadness and crying at odd moments, it is so much more and it is important that people who have never had it learn be be tolerant and accepting of those who do.