Some myths about depression. Myth 3: To overcome it – it will be simply enough to cheer up
There are some precise signs, which say that is time to go to the doctor (depression, unlike melancholy and grief, is a serious illness and demands medical aid):
- The bad mood, weakness, impossibility to concentrate last day by day longer than 5 - 7 days;
- You wake up already in melancholy, with bad thoughts;
- The depressive mood does not correspond to an objective situation, that is arises on a background of the general well-being;
- Sleep disturbance - or day time drowse, or painful night sleep, early awakening and impossibility to fall asleep again;
- Thoughts about suicide - direct or veiled such as «they will do better without me», «I don’t understand, what I am living for», etc.