diagnostic criteria for Major Depression Disorder.pls?

For a major depressive episode a person must have experienced at least five of the nine symptoms below for the same two weeks or more, for most of the time almost every day, and this is a change from his/her prior level of functioning. One of the symptoms must be either (a) depressed mood, or (b) loss of interest.

1. Depressed mood. For children and adolescents, this may be irritable mood.

2. A significantly reduced level of interest or pleasure in most or all activities.

3. A considerable loss or gain of weight (e.g., 5% or more change of weight in a month when not dieting). This may also be an increase or decrease in appetite. For children, they may not gain an expected amount of weight.

4. Difficulty falling or staying asleep (insomnia), or sleeping more than usual (hypersomnia).

5. Behavior that is agitated or slowed down. Others should be able to observe this.

6. Feeling fatigued, or diminished energy.

7. Thoughts of worthlessness or extreme guilt (not about being ill).

8. Ability to think, concentrate, or make decisions is reduced.

9. Frequent thoughts of death or suicide (with or without a specific plan), or attempt of suicide.

If you are feeling these symptoms - go seek help from a licensed psychologist and a psychiatrist. Trust me. It's nothing to mess around with.

Yes, because we all know that if you can't play with your Alpha-Bits in the morning to decide which title to give yourself that day, you must be waaaaaaaaay too stupid to even attempt understanding the DSM-IV. That's why they won't let you buy one if you don't know the secret handshake.

The DSM-IV is a perfectly acceptable, accurate, and easy to understand source for locating the diagnostic criteria you seek.

Look up Diagnostic Criteria, and Major Depression Dissorder, on google.

Craziness' symptoms are many, but the general behaviour a crazy person has is characterized by a constant incredibility and fear of everyone. Crazy people acquire a suspicious character. According though with each psychological type, craziness in their behaviour appears in different forms.

What happens is that people that are introverted become somehow extroverted but without understanding what they are doing and extroverted people start being afraid of everything, while before they were very sociable and audacious.

The crazy person's behaviour is affected by the influence of the wild conscience in their human conscience. The human conscience is the one we know, but we also have a wild conscience that we ignore, which is always trying to invade our human conscience and destroy it. So, craziness is the invasion of the wild primitive content of the wild part of our conscience into our human conscience.

Our human conscience respects other people, respects rules, follows examples, studies, thinks, feels, tries to capture the general meaning of everything, believes in goodness and wants to be happy.

However, our wild conscience is totally evil, hates rules and never obeys anyone. It can only destroy because it's cruel, without feelings. Therefore it doesn't respect moral rules. If this content invades the human conscience, it induces the human being on being immoral. It wants to destroy the human conscience in order to take its place, so it pushes the human part to make several moral mistakes that will provoke very serious problems to the person. This is how it starts destroying it.

Don't mess with the DSM-IV unless you have proper training! I am a PLMHP and my professional opinion would be to see a therapist.