Depressed mood 96 (44%)
Decreased interest or pleasure in all activities 78 (35%)
Decreased appetite 36 (16%)
Insomnia 54 (24% )
agitation or psychomotor retardation 50 (23%)
Easy fatigue 81 (37%)
worthlessness or excessive feelings of guilt 79 (36%)
Reduced ability to think or concentrate, indecisiveness 110 (50%)
Recurrent thoughts of death 56 (25%)
Although the sample studied is very small in number (300 individuals randomly " caught "between the people of the blogosphere), the deadline to respond to the survey:" Which of these symptoms found in your daily life? ", I decided to present the results in terms of graphics.
The outcome of the investigation opens a multitude of discussions related to the mental health of man of the third millennium: the percentage of Italians who suffers from at least one symptom listed under diagnostic for major depression is 2 to 3: It is disconcerting, in my opinion, think that the "recurrent thoughts of death" (25%) during daily life than the "decreased appetite" (16%) and that 50% of respondents from the daily suffering of a "reduced ability to think or concentrate."
Just to be clear, the 9 signs / symptoms presented are those that are used to diagnose depression: for this purpose, at least five of the nine symptoms must be present during a period of at least 2 weeks, should characterize the most the day and be present almost daily. A you comments ...
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