How serious is my depression?

Depression is a real thing. You are the key to understanding how serious your own depression is, and only by speaking with a trained professional like a doctor or a therapist wilil you trully find out how serious your depression has become. Anything that interferes with your day-to-day wellbeing is serious, even if you perceive that it isn't serious to others. You deserve to feel good and safe too. You can learn more about depression through various reading materials, including the amazing self-help guide here on 7cups, which may help you determine how serious your depression is. It's important to note however that depression always clouds our views of how serious things may be, or whether they are good or bad overall.

Honestly only a psychiatrist or Therapist could answer that but you know how bad you feel. Dont be afraid to ask for help depression is a serious mental illness

The seriousness of depression depends on the person. For some, they are still able to function at a mostly normal level and live a seemingly regular life. Others struggle to even get out of bed in the morning and have no motivation to do anything, letting important projects go unfinished or even unstarted.

Depression is a serious matter, however it only really becomes a clinical issue when it's significantly impacting your life in a negative way. The longer you allow it to go untreated, the more difficult it is to manage.

Depression affects everybody differently. For some, it makes them overeat whilst some can't tolerate eating whatsoever for example. Some people sleep too much, others can't fall asleep because they're so low. For this reason, it's impossible to measure 'depression' and it's important to note that mental illness isn't competitive - I don't want you to feel that you aren't deserving of help or any less deserving than somebody who experiences the illness differently. It's important to look at how it affects you. You deserve to feel good and live well and anything that prevents that is serious - but that's not the say that it cant be treated, I hope this conversation is the start of that for you.