Depression could affect your mood significantly. It can make you feel irritated with things and people often and find yourself stuck in a loop of feeling numb and sad. You may find yourself avoiding social get together and would want to stay in your room in your pyjamas. You might get overwhelmed at times when things go wrong and find yourself crying more than usual. Well, don't you worry, a little support goes a long way. We’ve got you

Sometimes, depression can make you feel like there is a constant string of thoughts in your head and you struggle to be at peace. It can bring thoughts with it like “people don’t like me” or “I’m horrible at things.” It may seem like the more you try to push these thoughts away, the more they seem to find their way back. You may find yourself affected by these repetitive thoughts more often than you did before. This may have started affecting your train of thoughts and your attention and concentration. Sometimes, it gets difficult for you to break away from these intrusive thoughts. You can find yourself help that will help you get rid of these thoughts and make you focus on being the better you.

It can make you lose interest and make it physically difficult to invest time and energy in work. Thoughts often feel intrusive and clouded that makes work life tough because you may feel like you are exerting too much time and energy in making it work. You may find yourself not wanting to attempt any work. You might sometimes get overwhelmed over tiny tasks or carry through the difficult work without breaking a sweat. Here's a tip: go easy on yourself and give yourself time to improve your mental health.

Depression can make to isolate yourself from others. It affects how you view and navigate relationships by either making you withdraw from it, or feel horrible about your role in the relationship. You might feel overwhelmed frequently and find yourself in a lot of discomfort when you're expected to meet people. The upside of this is that you are not alone. Always reach out for help from people you can trust and rely on!

Moderate symptoms can lower your sex drive, making you lose interest in activities which once brought pleasure. You might not feel like indulging in sex every now and then, and the frequency might have dropped, since it might be relatively lower than what it usually was.

Your body experiences aches and pains and sometimes you feel exhausted by the weight of depression. Often, you find it difficult to do the things that you were able to do without as much effort. You may have noticed a shift in your sleeping pattern where you may be oversleeping or be unable to catch a good night's sleep. Your appetite may be affected as well. Your body is telling you to take notice and work in improving your overall health

It can make life seem difficult to navigate through. You may find yourself having hopeless days at a stretch and this may have started affecting your outlook towards life. Sometimes you may feel hopeless about the future and this may have started affecting your personality at work or at social situations. You may see a minor mistake as a sign of incompetence. You may sometimes feel like the hopeless days are outnumbering the good days. Don't lose hope yet, there is help out there for you.

Depression can affect how you view yourself. It may trick us into thinking that we are not enough, or that something is wrong with us. There might be instances where your mind is getting glitchy from the self blaming thoughts that you dont have a control on. It may make you feel unwanted and not like yourself - and hey, we get it. This must be too much to handle, but please don't give in yet! The possibilities are always endless and every cloud has a silver lining.

Severe symptoms may get the better of you by affecting your lifestyle. There might be instances where you might be feeling exhausted and sometimes it might make it very difficult for you to even get out of your bed. You may be experiencing disturbed sleep cycles involving either sleep more than usual or having trouble sleeping at all. We know that the clouds surrounding you are quite grey and everything seems bleak at the moment, but be a little patient. You shall sail through all the storms sooner or later