Increased periods of crying are common symptom among depressed patients. This is a particular true of the depressed women.
The person easily cry when she is angry or when she hear something that is emotionally charged. While crying itself is not abnormal, crying with little or no provocation is a common piece of the depression puzzle. Prolonged crying spells nearly always indicate depression.
Some women seem to cry a lot on the one or two weeks before their period for little or no apparent reason.
At times patients feel better after crying, but more often they become further depressed. Some patients cry to such extent that their communication with others and the therapist is severely hampered.
Experts believe that crying is an important way to relive stress.
People with unipolar depression are more prone to crying spells. Unipolar depression is the broad name for depressive disorder, involves the occurrence of depression without nay history of mania.
Symptoms of depression – crying spells
Depression commonly refers to a relatively transitory, negative mood experienced by human. The terms depression or depressed are used in both the ordinary, non-clinical sense and to refer specifically to pathology, especially when the mood of depression has reached a level of severity and/or duration that warrants a clinical diagnosis.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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