Overcoming Depression and Finding Happiness

Overcoming Depression and Finding Happiness: "Overcoming Depression
and Finding Happiness

By Chuck T. Falcon
Counseling Psychologist, Author

Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass.

Can't, If, When, and But never did anything.

Trials give you strength, sorrows give understanding and wisdom.

Depression involves sadness, pessimism, a preoccupation with personal problems, and perhaps feeling sorry for one's self, anguish, crying, and hopelessness. Depressed people often lose interest in many activities and social contacts because of loss of pleasure in and enthusiasm for their usual activities. They may become apathetic or socially withdrawn. Low energy, chronic tiredness, excessive sleeping, and insomnia are common. Other possible symptoms of depression include poor appetite, heavy eating, weight loss or gain, feelings of inadequacy or worthlessness, anxiety, regrets, decreased productivity, poor concentration, or recurrent thoughts of death or suicide. Four out of five cases of severe depression clear up without treatment within six to nine months, but half of the people with severe depression experience it again later."

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