If you are experiencing excessive sadness and for or even more of the following symptoms nearly everyday for more than two weeks, you may be suffering from depression.

Common Symptoms of Depression

Below are listed some of the obvious symptoms of acute depression.

• Feelings or sadness, anxiety, or hopelessness.
• Lack of interest or pleasure in usual activities or pastimes.
• Increase or decrease in appetite or unexplained gain or loss of weight
• Frequent backaches, headaches, stomach problems, or other aches that don’t respond to any treatment.
• Insomnia or excessive sleepiness.
• Low energy, fatigue, tiredness.
• Feeling restless or irritable.
• Feeling worthless or guilty
• Inability to concentrate, remember, or make decisions
• Frequent thoughts of suicide or death

Some Effective Home Treatments

Most people will improve or recover from depression. Self care may be enough to pull you out of a mild depression, self care can add to the benefits of the professional treatments.

• Try to stay active as more as possible. It is easier to do yourself into feeling better than to feel yourself into doing better.
• Get regular exercises. If nothing else, go for long walks. They help to clear the mind.
• Look for a laugh. Laughter, like, exercise, can help restore balance to your system.
• Boost your self esteem.
• Believe that this mood will pass. Then look for signs that it is ending.
• Surround yourself with, happy upbeat people.
• Get involved in social groups or volunteer to help others. Being alone makes things seem worse than they are.