What are some of the symptoms of severe depression?

Depression is an illness involving your body mood and thoughts. It affects the way one eat, sleep and think about one self. Depprisive people are somehow pessimistic. Normal sadness and feeling despondent is a way how to spot depression. When looking for signs you want to see if the person life function is dispaired. example they no longer engage in different activities. Some of these symptoms are:

Severe sadness,

Anhedonia (loss of interest in activities that use to be enjoyable)

Hypersonia ( sleeping alot)

Insomnia ( lack of sleep)

Weight loss,

Poor concentration and difficulty making decission

Thinking about death or suicde.

Antidepressants along with psychotherapy is used to help treat symptoms of depression.