Brilliant Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, 2nd Edition

Are you depressed?

We all feel down from time to time, but to establish whether you might be suffering from clinical depression have a look at the following checklist:

• Do you feel consistently low most days?
• Do you find it hard to motivate yourself and take pleasure in things?
• Have you lost or gained significant amounts of weight recently? (People who are depressed either lose their appetite or tend to comfort eat.)
• Are you sleeping much more or less than usual?
• Do you feel restless, jittery and unable to settle much of the time or find yourself feeling unusually sluggish and listless?
• Do you feel tired and drained most days?
• Do you feel especially worthless or guilty?
• Are you finding it hard to concentrate and remember things at the moment? ...