Can I be depressed and not know it?
Anonymous
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Dec 23, 2015
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It is very well possible that someone can be depressed and not know it, there are many different symptoms of depression, you don't need to have them all to be depressed, just a few.
Anonymous
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Dec 24, 2015
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It's possible to experience depression as severe apathy and fail to identify it as depression because you associate depression with intense sadness rather than with numbed emotions.
Elfrulus
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Dec 24, 2015
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Absolutely. Depression can be a mood, a spiral of negative thoughts. One big aspect of depression and one reason it goes without diagnosis so often is people don't know they have it. Accepting you have depression and going to get help for it is half the battle to beating it.
thelittlepsychologist
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Dec 24, 2015
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It's possible. Some individuals display symptoms of depression that don't necessarily articulate "normal" depression. Irritability and anxiety are two symptoms that can present themselves when depression is oncoming and these don't seem like regular depressive symptoms for some people.
Anonymous
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Dec 24, 2015
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yes, there are many kinds of depression. depression where your continuously depressed, or the kind where you are only depressed sometimes
Anonymous
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Dec 24, 2015
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I believe that people can be depressed without knowing it because they can be so used to the feeling of sadness that they feel like this is their life and how they feel and maybe that everyone else feels that way.
CosmicStranger
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Dec 25, 2015
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Yes, because depression came all about sadness at first but then it becomes so often and used up that you are not aware of the impact of sadness it has on you anymore but you still take it as the one true sadness you learned before. but as what they said that too much of everything is sad and change is not change but an evolution, on this point it is sadness evolved into depression before you know it.
Greatlistener87
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Dec 25, 2015
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Yes you can. But to be sure do talk to someone that can help you clarify how you feel and how you can help yourself.
politeDreamer76
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Dec 25, 2015
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It is possible. There are some signs that are visible but you may not connect it to depression. Best thing to do is to talk to a professional who could listen to your experiences and reasons and correctly diagnose you and provide you with the help or support you need
Anonymous
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Dec 25, 2015
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Yes, sometimes people don't realize it. They just ignore the signs. Sometimes the signs aren't obvious. Sometimes they've been depressed for so long, they think it's normal.
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