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depression
17, filipino.
how do you know when someone is depressed? how is it it possible he'll end up psychotic?
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The symptoms of depression are
you can't sleep or you sleep to much.
you can't concentrate or you find it previously easy tasks you may find diffuclt.
you feel hopeless and helpless.
you can't control your nagative thought no matter how hard you try.
you have lost your appetite or you cant stop eating.
you are are much more irriatble and more short tempered than usual.
you have thoughts of suicide.
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When a person is clinically depressed he or she doesn't become psychotic. That's not part of this particular mental illness. Chronic despair, sadness, inability to function is part of depression.
If a person is psychotic it's almost always another type of mental health issue ie: bipolar, schizophrenia etc. They need to be delusional, hear voices, have grandiose ideas, think they're GOD like, see what isn't there. That's psychotic.
If you're thinking of psychotic as being violent and something out of the movies it's not exactly close to that with most who have mental health issues. If you're depressed or mentally ill if you aren't a violent person to start with or have dangerous traits you won't no matter how ill you become.
The thing is a person may have depression and an undercurrent a different illness that brings forth being psychotic or violent. But depression itself doesn't lead to that. Having been through the mental health system I'm reasonably confident in telling you that.
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