How can depression affect my life?

The effects of depression can impact every aspect of a person’s life. Feelings of happiness, contentment, enthusiasm, and pleasure are diminished. Activities once enjoyed are no longer of interest, and many people with symptoms of depression experience fatigue and listlessness. Work, school, and other activities that require concentration become extremely difficult. Even love, an emotion of pleasure, becomes difficult to feel when symptoms of depression are being experienced.

Many people with depression describe a feeling of separation from themselves. They view their life from the outside, like watching a movie. This isolation impacts relationships with friends and loved ones. Until the symptoms of depression are treated, depression negatively alters life and makes it extremely difficult for those suffering from it.