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Why do depressed people find it difficult to shower and brush their teeth for days even though this would make them feel better?

Coming from first hand experience, I can answer.

I suffer from Treatment resistant major depressive disorder. This means in general I’m living a depressed life, and struggle to maintain the basics of life.

When depression knocks you on your butt, the lights go out. The light of day is dark, the beauty behind self care can’t be found, the idea of a shower is so mentally exhausting that you’d rather fall asleep.

I once fell so hard in a depressive episode that I would inch my way out of the bed, onto the floor. Proceed to crawl to the bathroom, climb into the tub, and sit… to just get “clean”. Whether I scrubbed my body or not… I soaked in water, and suffered just to get inside the damn tub. Once I was in the tub, the idea of getting out would make me not want to even bathe in the first place until I feel better

Lastly, I wanted to add…when a person is going through a bad depressive episode they are literally in pain and agony. The pain can be so big that a simple teeth brushing or shower are the last things on their minds. Generally, we carry hope that we can sleep the episode away.

I guess I have no scientific answer for you, just first hand experience examples.

Luckily for me, after 31 years, I found liberation. I already see the light in the days and wake up feeling good. I saw myself as “pretty” for the first time in 31 years.

If you or anyone you know is stuck in the pits of a black hole and your current treatment approach isn’t working, We would recommend medication and NLP Coaching with a certified mental health coach to help you feel alive again.

Our choices determine the kind of people we have become. We all have choices we consistently make consciously or unconsciously. They are: https://t.co/Dv8NDoy0vf nothing. 2.Retreat. 3.Take normal levels of action. 4.Take massive action.
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Symptoms that may lead to a manic episode are a persistent elevated, expansive or irritable mood lasting atleast one week.

During the period of mood disturbance, three or more of the following also perssisring:

1. Inflated self esteem or grandiose.
2. Decreased need for sleep( feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep).
3. More talkative than usual or pressured to keep talking.
4. Flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing.
5. Distractibility I.e attention easily drawn to irrelevant external stimuli.
6. Increase in goal directed activity( socially, work/school or sexually).
7. Psychomotor Agitation.
8. Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential to have painful consequences.(Buying sprees, sexual indiscretion or foolish business investments).

In extreme cases psychotic symptoms may develop which include the following:
1. Inflated self esteem or grandiose ideas may develop into delusions, irritability and suspiciousness into delusions of persecution.
2. Grandiose or religious delusions of identity or prominent role.
3. Individual may become incomprehensible.
4. Severe and sustained physical activity and excitement may result in aggression/violence and neglect of eating, drinking or personal hygiene may result.

Symptoms that may lead to a major depressive episode are atleast one of these two symptoms plus 4 or more of the others, present for two weeks consistently:
A - Depressed Mood or B - Loss of interest or pleasure.
1. Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day.
2. Diminished interest or pleasure in all or almost all activities, most of the day or nearly every day.
3. Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain in a month or decrease/increase in appetite nearly every day.
4. Insomnia or Hypersomnia nearly everyday.
5. Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly everyday.
6. Fatigue or loss of energy nearly everyday.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt.
8. Diminished ability to think or concentrate or indecisiveness nearly everyday.
9. Recurrent thoughts of death or su***de ideation with a specific plan or an attempt.

"In cases where there is only depression, we refer to it as Unipolar Mood Disorder, in cases where we have depression and mania, we refer to it as Bipolar Mood Disorder however we can never have cases of only mania, as mania is always linked with depressive episodes."

Bipolar Mood Disorder consists of two extreme poles, on the one we have extreme dysphoria(major depressive episode) and on the other extreme euphoria(manic episode).

"Emotions, feelings and affect can be considered to be reactive and short lived, whereas moods are more prolonged and sustained internal emotional states."