Clinical Depression Diagnosis

Clinical depression is completely different from mild type of depression. Clinical depression is also known as unipolar depression and has been categorize as major depression condition. The symptoms of clinical depression are enough to determine that patient of clinical depression require immediate medical help.

A person suffering from clinical depression can also have several symptoms of other mild depression type though it generally accompanies clinical depression symptoms. However, lack of interest in common activities, hopelessness, lifelessness, being fed up all the time, sadness, swift mood swing are very general symptoms of clinical depression which major affect the functional aspect of the sufferer and also provide negative impact on life.

Other symptoms of clinical depression are low self-esteem, self-loathing, fear of loss, chronic condition such as body ache, headache, but generally there are no obvious cause of clinical depression. However the sufferer may neglect his/her physical appearance remain unhygienic, encounter emotional outbursts, remain aggressive agitated and irritable most of the time and may adapt wrong habits of alcohol or other abusive things.

Diagnostic Criteria

The diagnostic criteria for clinical depression treatment depends upon the severity of the case however, for clinical depression diagnosis the sufferer should encounter at least 4 and more than four major symptoms of clinical depression. Also, the specific period after which clinical depression diagnosis is needed is, three weeks which may remain at least for several months but during this period the suffer must have encountered anhedonia. Apart from this, given below are some specific criteria as per which clinical depression diagnosis are suppose to be provided are:

•    Anhedonia, an inability to find interest in daily activities even in such activities, which were previously enjoyed.
•    Emotional outburst feel of guilt, hopelessness, worthlessness and being isolated from family friends and from social life.
•    A revealing change in appetite, eating either to less or to much which leads to sudden weight gain or loss.
•    Frequent Psychomotor retardations that leads to irritability masturbating, pacing up, and agitation
•    Physical and mental fatigue, less motivational aspect that leads to inability to execute even a simple task
•    Spoiled sleep patterns, sleeping either too less or too much, which leads to insomnia and hypersomnia respectively.
•    Low concentration level that provide adverse affect on normal functioning. However, in serve cases frequent memory lapses are common.
•    Thoughts of death, suicide, attempt to suicide in order to get free from existing life, being isolated and abandoned from family and loved ones.