# you can’t sleep or you sleep too much
# you can’t concentrate or find that previously easy tasks are now difficult
# you feel hopeless and helpless
# you can’t control your negative thoughts, no matter how much you try
# you have lost your appetite or you can’t stop eating
# you are much more irritable and short-tempered than usual
# you have thoughts that life is not worth living
# Lost of energy
# Lost interest in daily activity
Do you have health insurance? are you able to see a therapist?

Everybody's depression is different so ServiceU is probably listing the more common feelings you'll have when your depressed. I think I'm depressed to. A lot of ppl will tell you that you cant laugh when your depressed but I laugh sometimes. I cant remember things that happened one day ago, I get angry easily, I feel like hurting myself for some unknown reason like once a day at the least and I have become completely anti-social. I also get nervous way easier. Yes. I think your deppressed. if you need someone to talk to(because I know I do) you can private message me.

There is a subtype of depression called Atypical depression, which has slightly different "criteria"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atypical_depr ession
does this fit better?

If you thing you are depressed the fist thing you should to is talk to someone you can trust, then if you feel you need more, you should talk to your doctor so he can help you find a therapist you can talk to.

Hope you manage to sort it out, *hugs*

this is what i also wanted to know!
i'll have random outbursts of imense sadness and negativity running through my veins and i don't know what causes it.
nothing traumatic has happened to me.

usually teenagers get depressed because of their raging hormones. being depressed usually your thoughts are negative.
what i do is force myself to think positive, even when negative thoughts come to my head.

yeah that's what i always try to do, but late at night i just end up crying. it's hard to be positive while i'm sleepy!