Feeling Depressed: Check Your Symptoms

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Check Your Symptoms

If you answer yes to any of the following questions, click on the "Yes" in front of the question for information about how soon to see a health professional.

Review health risks that may increase the seriousness of your symptoms.

If you have any of the following symptoms, evaluate those symptoms first.

• Thoughts of suicide: Go to the topic Suicidal Thoughts or Threats.
• Feelings of extreme sadness after having a baby: Go to the topic Problems After Delivery of Your Baby.

Yes

Do you feel sad or blue?

Yes

Are you being treated for depression, but you are not getting better?

Yes

Do you think that your feelings of sadness may be caused by a medicine?

Other Symptoms to Watch For

Do you have any of the following symptoms?

• Feelings of anxiety: Go to the topic Anxiety.
• Inability to sleep or early waking: Go to the topic Sleep Problems, Age 12 and Older.
• Feelings of profound weakness or fatigue: Go to the topic Weakness and Fatigue.
• Problems with alcohol or substance abuse: Go to the topic Alcohol and Drug Problems.

If a visit to a health professional is not needed immediately, see the Home Treatment section for self-care information.

Last updated:	January 12, 2007
Author:	Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA
Reviewed By:	William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine, Lisa S. Weinstock, MD - Psychiatry
Editors:	Sydney Youngerman-Cole, RN, BSN, RNC, Tracy Landauer