PSYCHOLOGICAL (BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS)

• Low Mood - feeling sad, blue, down in the dumps, even pleasing events cannot lift the mood.
• Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in food, sex, hobbies or just about everything, which was earlier pleasurable.
• Loss of self-confidence: person feels he will not be able to manage the work though he has managed similar work in the past.
• Feeling of worthlessness ("I am no good, I am a bad person").
• Loss in thoughts, person gets too many thoughts mainly negative ones ("nothing good will happen", and "I may never recover").
• Inability to concentrate
• Indecisiveness - at one moment person makes one decision and within no time makes the exactly opposite decision.
• Increased irritability – person becomes irritable over small trifling matters.
• Panic attacks i.e. palpitation, chest pain, nervousness, excessiveness sweating, and feeling of impending death.
• Frequent crying.
• Guilt feeling ("I am a burden on my family; others are suffering, because of me; I have committed a sin" etc.).
• Suicidal thoughts – thoughts of death, attempted suicide.