Sage-Tips

Can depression make you unable to work?

Depression is considered a psychiatric disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It’s a significant mood disorder that’s known to interfere with daily activities, which may include your ability to work. Depression sometimes becomes so severe that you can no longer go to work.

Does depression make you less intelligent?

However, there is also a lot of research that shows that depression actively leads to a detrimental development of the frontal lobe, ultimately affecting your intelligence and lowering your IQ because you’re simply too depressed to think straight, or can’t complete certain cognitive tasks anymore.

Is depression considered a mental illness?

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), mental illness refers to “conditions that affect a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, or behavior.” These can include but aren’t limited to depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.

What is depdepression and how does it affect you?

Depression can be caused by frozen anger, sadness and disappointment as well as life traumas. It often affects sensitive people who don’t see a solution or improvement to their problems and begin to feel excluded, unwanted and hopeless.

Do you hate yourself for being depressed?

Depression is like that. And moving past depression and on to new things has to start with refusing to blame and hate yourself for being depressed. You do not “deserve” to be depressed or feel alone and unworthy. These are lies. You must drown out the voice of depression and do anything – even small things – to begin once again to love yourself.

How do I stop being depressed all the time?

Remember one thing you like about yourself. Spend some time internalizing your success. One day at a time, remember who you are what makes you happy to be you. We spiral into depression because we’re too hard on ourselves. As human beings, it’s our natural instinct to hustle and want to thrive.

What are your early warning signs of depression?

Those are my warning signs. When I start feeling numb and distant, I know that I’m beginning to disconnect due to my depression. If I start watching too much television or spending excessive amounts of time on my phone, then it’s likely that an emotional detachment is imminent.