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Normal Depressed Mood

Depressed mood is a sustained emotional state that is characterized
by sadness, low morale, misery, discouragement, hopelessness, emptiness, unhappiness, distress, pessimism and other related affects that, if assessed in isolation, cannot easily be delineated from the emotional states universally experienced by all human beings when faced with life’s adversities. However, depressed mood differs in some aspects that would justify considering it not only as quantitatively more intense than the normal emotional response but also as a qualitatively distinct state that qualifies as a psychopathological symptom.

Difference between normal depressed mood and nonmorbid emotional reaction of sadness

The intensity and the depth of the pain become so unbearable that often the death wish provides a comforting remedy. The sadness and the associated feelings pervade all domains of personal life and impact on the individual’s social performance. The depressed mood lasts long enough to be felt as an unalterable affective state. It may occur spontaneously but, even if it has been triggered by a life event, it evolves autonomously, dissociated from that event, and resists being changed through reasoning or encouragement. It is associated with
cognitive and somatic symptoms (guilt, self-reproach, suicidalthoughts and a variety of unpleasant and painful bodily sensations) that are not commonly encountered in non-depressed mood states.
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These conditions are natural reactions to losses in life. They typically involve sadness, lethargy, and in serious cases, for example, grief after the death of a loved one, often despair, anger, insomnia, poor appetite, or weight gain, obsessive thoughts about the lost person, and terrible guilt about any problems in the depressed person's relationship with the deceased individual. What makes these reactions normal is that people eventually recover. After losing a ball game, it may take a day or two to bounce back. After a lay-off, it may take a few months. After the death of a loved one, it may take a year. If they don't recover, they have a clinical depression and should call a doctor.

Normal depressed mood and grief presume a triggering life event. If you or anyone you know displays these symptoms without a loss, or if the depression seems out of proportion to the loss -- such as not getting a raise and sobbing inconsolably for days -- call a doctor.

Tips to get over the normal depressed mood

1. Stop worrying unnecessarily.

2. Time management - 15 Minutes To Greater Productivity

Time management and productivity often go hand-in-hand. Use the STOP method to make sure you are making the most of your time.

See clearly you problems and objectives. Identify what you must do to solve problems or meet goals as quickly as possible.

Target the causes of problems and the reasons behind what you are doing. Analyze your current action to determine whether it will effectively accomplish what it should.

Organize options. Are there faster but equally effective alternate methods to those you are currently using? Learn new methods that will save time in the long run.

Plan your work and proceed. Initiate the most efficient action plan to get the result you want.

Depression Types

Normal Depressed Mood

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Endogenous Depression

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