27 year old professional male needing help. Do you think this is just depression?
My mood is low all the time. I have a lot of fatigue and walk very slowly until recently when I did some exercise and now I walk fast but my other symptoms haven’t changed.
I have depressed thoughts where I get angry at people for their lack of understanding and misinterpretatino of my behavior. Not always though. It seems to be that my mood follows these thoughts. My mood is higher today and I haven’t had any of these thoughts yet my concentration level has not increased.
I struggle to follow what people are saying. I often struggle to maintain eye contact and end up looking away or I zone out and can start scanning their face. I don’t mean that I get shy looking at their eye, I mean that I end up being aware of their face more than what they are saying when I look at them. If they scratch their leg, or move an arm, then I’m easily distracted and will look at these things. When talking to a woman, I will be acutely aware of her features and my eyes will often dart to them without me being able to stop it.
I feel bored all the time. When in a meeting with other people, I struggle to follow what is going on. I keep jumping to sexual fantasies or something of interest, which may be my health or golf.
On a golf course, something that I like relative to other activities, I still feel unable to be interested enough to know what is going on.
I avoid all social interaction because I find it difficult to concentrate on the task of talking to someone and making sure I say appropriate things. I often don’t.
I feel that I am not seeing things accurately and their is a visual haze in my eyesight.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I know this is a US question, and this is coming to you very late, but it sounds like Adult Attention Deficit Disorder to me. I have bipolar, and this isn’t like anything I experience when depressed. But my husband has ADD, and that’s what this sounds like, with perhaps a minor amount of depression. In any case, I would go see a professional instead of asking us amateurs on two continents.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Deff sounds like depression to me. Im sorry I know how awful it is. Seek some help from someone who will totally understand and just listen. It does help!! I wish you the best and hope you feel "back to normal" soon.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Yeah it does sound like depression and i’m so sorry. Try talking to someone to get help.