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August 2, 2007 – No. 12
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Are you depressed and don’t know it?

Read the following list. Put a check mark by each sign that sounds like you:

  • I am really sad most of the time.

  • I don’t enjoy doing the things I’ve always enjoyed doing.

  • I don’t sleep well at night and am very restless.

  • I am always tired. I find it hard to get out of bed.

  • I don’t feel like eating much.

  • I feel like eating all the time.

  • I have lots of aches and pains that don’t go away.

  • I have little to no sexual energy.

  • I find it hard to focus and am very forgetful.

  • I am mad at everybody and everything.

  • I feel upset and fearful, but can’t figure out why.

  • I don’t feel like talking to people.

  • I feel like there isn’t much point to living, nothing good is going to happen to me. *

  • I don’t like myself very much. I feel bad most of the time.

  • I think about death a lot. I even think about how I might kill myself.*


If you checked several boxes and the symptoms have persisted for two weeks or more, call your doctor. Take the list to show the doctor. You may need to get a checkup and find out if you have depression.

* If you have thoughts of harming or killing yourself, talk to your doctor right away or call 911.

Source: National Institute of Mental Health