BEAUTY Cool As A Cucumber

Use cucumber and its innumerable benefits for beautiful skin, inside out.

Cucumbers have always been associated with cooling properties, but do you know why the green fruit-cum-veggie is famous for it? With 90 per cent water content, cucumber is primarily a water body and its internal temperature is about 20 degrees cooler then the air temperature. Little wonder then that its natural refrigerating and refreshing effects have found a way into face washes, creams, scrubs and under-eye gels.

The cucumber plant was a popular skincare ingredient even in ancient times. Its thinly cut slices have been used as natural eye pads to soothe tiredness and puffiness and its juice blended with other kitchen-cupboard ingredients for cost-effective face masks and toners.

Eye Soother

Calm and condition the delicate skin around your eyes with cucumber as it helps in reducing dark circles. The most clichéd, but also the most effective stress-buster, this is especially comforting after late-night parties or a busy week at work spent in front of a computer screen. You will feel the tiredness in your eyes being washed away by the moist cucumber in a matter of minutes.

Skin Food

Cucumber contains vitamin C and caffeic acid, both of which soothe skin irritations. Its hard skin is rich in fibre and a variety of minerals, including silica, potassium and magnesium, all of which are excellent for your complexion’s health. “It astringent quality is best suitable for oily and combination skin and it also protects the skin from sunburn.

Home Recipe

Blend cucumber juice with lemon for toning and with tomato juice for cleansing oily skin. Cooling and toning are cucumber’s twin benefits. For dry skin, blend grated cucumber with a paste of ripe banana, but make sure to use only organic cucumber for all your beauty treatments.

Buy dark green cucumbers with a bumpy surface, as they are most fresh and cool.

All Things Nice BEAUTY Skin Tight

Keep your young teenager’s skin youthful and free of blemishes with these simply, easy-to-follow tips.

Flawless skin, zero wrinkles, the ability to experiment with make-up are all part and parcel of youthful skin – the kind you wear with pride from the time you turn a teenager to when you hit your late 20s. But they too come with their own set of baggage. Easy susceptibility to zits and pimples and a face that suddenly develops a mind of its own, oily one day and dry as a bone the next. So what does a teenager do? Here’s how to make sure your skin always stays flawless:

The Essential Must-Knows For Flawless Skin
1. Hygiene is of utmost importance. If the hormonal changes have caused the skin to be sensitive, use cleanser. Do not rub the skin hard. Wash it often enough only to remove excess oil. Otherwise you are unnecessarily over-drying the skin and may change its pH. Lowering the pH can make the skin sensitive and also more vulnerable to infection.
2. Use a thick coat of a suitable sunscreen at least 2-3 times a day regardless of its PSF (sun protection factor).
3. If you have oily skin, use an oil free day-time moisturiser that has an SPF 15. Exposure to sun can lead to discolouration and acne.
4. It’s important to keep your skin clean with a suitable face wash.
5. Remember to use a good oil free sunscreen on face and neck, 2-3 times a day.
6. Dandruff is most definitely your biggest enemy. So use an anti-dandruff shampoo at least once a week.
7. By the time you hit your late teens, start using eye creams and lip balms with SPF. If you are the outdoorsy sporty type then always remember to rub on some oil-free sunscreen or sunblock with SPF 30 when heading out.
8. Remember if you are prone to acne, oily products are an absolute no-no. Stay away from the hair spray and gel. They have oils that are the reason you break out on the forehead or around your hairline. But if you absolutely need that perfect hairspray then try keeping them away from your face. Cover your face with a towel when you’re spraying on the hair spray.
9. Use a face mask or a gentle exfoliator once a week to remove dead skin. These are treatments and not just cleansers so ensure that you use them on clean, damp skin.
10. If your skin tends to break out easily and often then avoid tight caps or bandanas on your head. Wear loose shirts and stay away from tight outfits that don’t allow your skin to breathe.
11. And this is definitely a no-no. Stop squeezing or pressing the pimples. This could scar the surrounding normal tissue too.
12. Don’t wash your face too often. It can cause skin irritation.

Planning Your Perfect Night Of Sleep?

Let’s go through your ideal night of sleep and sleep preparation together, starting in the afternoon.

Getting Ready For Nighttime
Preparing for sleep at night begins during the daytime. Engage in some sort of aerobic exercise such as brisk walking in the afternoon or early evening. Daily exercise is one of the best ways to improve the quality of your sleep because it helps you fall asleep faster and sleep longer. People who exercise spend a greater amount of time in stage three and four sleep, the most restorative and repairing stages of sleep.
But don’t go overboard and rev up your body with exercise within three hours of bedtime.
Eat a modest, healthy dinner four hours before bedtime. You may eat a light evening snack before bed - even better is a snack that is correctly balanced with proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. This snack will help stabilise blood sugar through the nighttime hours. Some people can handle caffeine; others can’t. If you fall in the latter category, then quit drinking or eating caffeinated products by noon.
As the sun goes down, your body will relax naturally. When the light fades, the hormone melatonin is released into your bloodstream, making you sleepy. The amount of melatonin your body produces is affected by the amount of light going into your eyes.
Follow your body’s signal. Turn down the lights. Light messes up our hormonal response at night.
Don’t watch an action-packed movie or even the late local news programme, which tends to play up violent news stories. Watch something calming, play your favourite soothing music, or perhaps watch a funny TV show or movies since laughter helps to relax you. Take a warm shower or bath, adding soothing salts or lavender oil. Get all your senses involved. Dim the lights, listen to music, and relax.

When To Head To The Bed
Sleep before midnight is better than sleep after midnight. If you can’t bear the idea of going to sleep that early, remember that your very health is at stake. Ninety to 95 percent of your 60 to 100trillion cells are replaced each year, and much of that occurs during sleep that comes early in the night. Not only that, but while you sleep your body rejuvenates itself. Sleep and water are the two best anti-ageing secrets. If you value your looks and your life span, getting to bed at 10 p.m. won’t be difficult. For many patients with chronic disease, the most important recommendation is to be in bed by 9 p.m. and to sleep at least eight hours. God designed us to fall asleep when it is dark and to wake up when the sun rises.

Why Kindness Is Good For You...................???

From Baba Amte to Mother Teresa and Bill gates, we’ve always admired those who are kind and giving. Now we’re discovering that kindness will not only make you happier, it might just help you live longer. So many things that make life rough around the edges, an indiscriminate dent in your car, a door slammed in your face, are due to lack of consideration. Imagine, for a minute, a world where everyone is just a little kinder. When you’re trying to merge in traffic, someone lets you in. At the supermarket, you allow a person in a hurry to go ahead of you. A new theory called ‘survival of the nicest’ says that because of kindness, the human race prospered as a species. In ancient societies, kindness was a key component of the survival of communities. Groups with many altruists tend to survive.
In other words, we have an in-built capacity to help others, especially those close to us, to ensure the survival of our community.


Give And Receive
Research shows kindness can also make us happier. It makes no difference to your happiness if you help a loved one or a stranger, but it may have different results. A small, anonymous act might make you feel like a good person. But a big kind act to an acquaintance may have social consequences: you might make a new friend or be generously thanked. So paying for a stranger’s coffee may give you a temporary buzz, but helping an elderly neighbour to shop may help you forge a better relationship. Kindness is good for you in other ways. Being kind is good for your health. A study found that those who regularly helped others had better mental health and lower rates of depression. Other studies found helpful people were less likely to fall ill from chronic diseases, and tended to have better immune systems. A strong correlation exists between the wellbeing, happiness and health of people who are kind. Kindness can help regulate emotions, which has a positive impact on our health. If our in-built ‘fight or flight’ response becomes overactive due to stress, it affects our cardiovascular system and weakens the body’s immunity. It’s difficult to be angry, resentful, or fearful when one is showing unselfish love towards another person.

It Can Be Tough
Kindness may be a virtue, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. There’s some level of cynicism towards kindness. The label ‘do-gooder’ isn’t a compliment. We all like the idea of being kind, but at the same time, don’t nice guys always finish last? Acting from the goodness of your heart goes directly against the ‘survival of the fittest’ theory of evolution, which says that humans are driven to compete for existence quite selfishly. Back in 1968, the researchers Bibb Latane and John Darley discovered a phenomenon known as the ‘bystander effect’: When someone needs help in a public place, they are less likely to receive help if there are more people around. Researchers believe that the effect arises because everyone takes their cue from the crowd and assumes someone else will take responsibility. In big cities, people may also feel unsafe interacting with strangers.

Feel-good Factor
But none of the above explains why we are kind when we choose to be. Sana Murad made one of the greatest sacrifices possible for someone she loved, she donated a kidney to her 57-year-old father. “It was one of the easiest things I’ve ever had to decide,” says she. It was a profound act of kindness, but one she feels she could do only for a loved one. “I don’t know why, but I don’t think I could have just randomly given a kidney away - I would probably only consider it for a family member,” she says. “At the same time, giving my dad my kidney did help someone else, because dad’s no longer on the organ donor waiting list, so someone can take his place.”
Sana’s father may be able to thank his genes twice over for his daughter’s kindness. A 2005 study found a link between kindness and a gene that releases dopamine, a feel good neurotransmitter in the brain. A research found that helpers reported a distinct physical sensation when being kind. Many reported feeling more energetic, warm, calmer and greater self-worth, a phenomenon he calls the ‘helper’s high. Some scientists say that because we’re altruistic only for the good of the group and to get a dopamine rush, it means kindness is actually, well, selfish. Probably most altruism is self-interest at some level.

Giving Freely


Kindness has another similarity with happiness - it can’t be bought. Economists often make the mistake of assuming people are inherently selfish and that we will only do something good for a financial reward or to avoid a fine. But a report, published last year, found otherwise.The report was about a research on six childcare centres that started inflicting fines on parents who were late picking up their children. After the fines were introduced, parents were twice as likely to be late. A similar study also found women were actually less likely to donate blood if they were paid.
We resent the idea that our principles can be bought: we prefer to do good deeds for their own sake. People enjoy being kind to others much as they enjoy eating ice-cream. It gives us pleasure.

Little Seeds Of Love
One synonym for the word kindness is the term humanity. Kindness is essentially a recognition of the fact that we’re all human, an acknowledgement that we’re all in this together. Most of what makes life worth living depends on at least some of us being altruistic some of the time. We cannot address problems like global climate change, the spread of disease and political violence by appealing only to selfish motives.
The good news is that it’s easy to train ourselves to the kinder. People should simply do more acts of kindness than they usually do, and do them on a regular basis, like five sets of kindness every Monday. Kindness, then, is just a matter of choice, an attitude you carry with you that you can make a difference, however small, in someone else’s life. Kindness has to begin within ourselves. Sometimes we keep people out to keep ourselves safe, but that also isolates us from the rest of the world. Every major religion has love as a universal principle. Kindness takes love to a gentler and more accessible level that most people feel comfortable with. Showing a little bit of kindness to people recognises that everyone around you is just like yourself.

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Top Ten Fruits And Veggies For Juices And Smoothies
1-Apple: Contains vitamins A, B1, B2, B6 and C, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur and iron. Good source of soluble fibre and apple juice is a great base for other veggie juice.
2-Celery: Rich in sodium, calcium, potassium and iron as well as vitamins B and C. Celery juice is wonderful for reducing fluid retention and acidity. Good for gout and arthritis.
3-Cucumber: Rich in silica, potassium, magnesium, sodium and contains vitamins B, C and beta-carotene. An excellent diuretic, superb for the hair, nails and skin.
4-Ginger: Natural antibiotic and antihistamine, and adds a kick to smoothies and juices.
5-Raw beetroot: Wonderful for pre and post-exercise, increases stamina and lowers blood pressure. Contains vitamins B, C, folic acid and beta-carotene as well as minerals including calcium, iron, sodium and potassium.
6-Carrot: Contains vitamins B, C, E and K and beta-carotene. Plus mineral calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, silica and sodium. Great mixed with apple juice.
7-Pineapple: The most beautiful juice on earth. Great to mix with vegetable juices. Contains vitamins B,C, E, folic acid and minerals potassium, iron, calcium, sodium and phosphorus. This juice is wonderful for asthma, digestion problems and arthritis.
8-Pear: Great mixed with a touch of ginger juice. Excellent for constipation. Contains laevulose, a fruit sugar more easily tolerated by diabetics.
9-Avocado: Avocados don’t juice but blend beautifully with other juices in a smoothie maker or blender. They are the single most nutritious food on earth.
10-Spinach: Contains vitamins B, C, K, Beta-carotene and folic acid. Plus minerals iron, calcium, potassium and sulphur.

Wellbeing Stressed? Try This:..............!

Homeopathy
Homeopathy has been found to be as effective as prescribed drugs for stress symptoms, such as anxiety. A survey revealed that 87 per cent of patients with mental and emotional problems reported positive changes. A qualified homeopath will talk through your stress symptoms and then prescribe a treatment that’s individually tailored to your needs.

Sound Therapy
After a few basic questions about your medical history, you lie down and relax as the therapist plays soothing sounds on ancient or modern instruments, often bells or Tibetan bowls. The bowls produce different notes, each resonating with a specific stress symptom, such as insomnia, anxiety, or even a digestive problem, such as IBS.

A Healthy Breakfast
The B vitamins in wholegrain and unrefined foods (brown rice, bread, cereals) reduce stress and mood swings. A survey found that having wholegrain toast for breakfast reduced stress levels by as much as 59 per cent.

Holiday Haircare

Sea and sun can play havoc with our hair, so it’s vital we take care of our tresses in the heat. Here are top tips for keeping your locks luscious all summer long.


We’re all aware of the damage the sun can do to our skin – we wouldn’t dream of going in the sun without wearing a high-protection sunscreen – but many people neglect their hair on holiday and return home for a drastic cut to get rid of the damage.
Wearing a sun hat and staying in the shade during the hottest part of the day – between noon and 2 p.m. – makes good sun sense, but turn over to find out what other steps you can take to protect hair from the detrimental effects of sun, sea and chlorine…

Top Tips For Holiday Hair
• Ask your stylist to recommend professional hair care products for your holiday and, in the same way as you would use sunscreen on your body, apply a protective lotion to your hair and scalp before you go out in the sun and then reapply after swimming.
• Chlorinated water and seawater strip out all the natural moisture from hair and fades colour so, before you swim, apply serum to hair. After your swim, rinse hair with fresh water and reapply. You can keep the sleek look going by using hair protectors which also offers protection and hold.
• Hair is at its most fragile when wet so use a wide-tooth comb to detangle, working gently from root to tip. Rollers are easy to pack in your suitcase and are superb for creating a sleek finish or adding bounce. Lightweight straighteners are also a big asset – but be sure to use a heat protection spray before using straighteners.
• Protect hair and scalp with professional formula products containing SPF 18 for maximum performance. Hair spray is excellent for use on coloured hair as it reduces fading by up to 62 per cent.
• Hair that has natural curl or waves can look wonderful on the beach and with very little effort you can make it work for you. Use a leave-in balm conditioner – fantastic for taming rebellious hair. While you’re getting ready to go out in the evening, let your hair dry naturally, then use just a slick of wax rubbed lightly between your hands. Using a very gentle scrunching action, work through the hair to create a soft, tousled look.
• Aftersun care is vital – particularly if you’re a fan of water sports. Your stylist will be able to recommend products with intensive conditioning properties that help to repair the structure of the hair.
Hot Looks For Cool Hair
Bold high-shine colours are big this summer. Think platinum ice-cool blondes, dark chocolate browns and vibrant reds – but all one colour and with very little multi-toning.
Style-wise, glamour is the key and a simple and relatively quick way of getting the big hair look is, believe it or not, to use straightening irons! First, apply a styling spray product before drying your hair.

1. Split the hair into sections. Starting with the bottom half of the hair, take one-inch sections ready to curl, clamp the iron around the hair near the scalp, twist and hold for a couple of seconds.
2. Slowly pull down the section of hair to the end. Open the irons and let the hair fall out into an open curl.
3. Repeat until the whole head is done. Tease out the curls gently with your fingers. Lightly spray with hairspray to hold the look and you’re ready to go!

12 Things Your Hairstylist Won’t Tell You
• I’m a beautician, not a magician. I can give you a supermodel’s haircut, but I can’t give you her face.
• Come at least five minutes early. If you’re running late, please call ahead. Show me some basic respect. This is a business, not fun and games.
• Don’t ask me to “squeeze” you in when I’m already booked, I’d be taking time and effort away from other clients. You wouldn’t like being treated that way. Hairdresser school does not teach about counter-transference, projection, negative reinforcement, or personality disorders. If you’re looking for a therapist, all I have is a tail comb and an opinion.
• Some women think that if they keep their hair all one length the way it was in high school, everyone will think they’re still in high school.
Guess What? You’re not. As you get older, you need to soften the lines around your face. Layers are the magic remedy.
• Bodies and hair change as hormones change. If your hair is dry, listless, or brittle, or if it’s not holding your colour or style the way it used to, see a doctor. If your hair isn’t over processed, you could be pregnant (surprise!) or menopausal.
• A trim is not “just” a trim. It requires my expertise, skill, knowledge, and time. Would you say to your dentist, “It’s just a tooth,” or to your doctor, “It’s just a leg”?
• If you want to buy a bottle of colour and do your own hair to save money, you can live with the consequences. Some clients will say, “Cut my hair just like you did last time,” That always baffles the stylist. The average time between appointments is six to eight weeks. I have hundreds of clients. How am I supposed to remember exactly how I did your hair the last time? If you want a carbon copy of a cut and style you loved, take a picture and show me.
• Why do you think a Child’s haircut should cost less than yours? Kids don’t sit still. Kids kick. It’s an intense experience.
• Standing all day and using scissors and a blow-dryer takes its toll – I have arthritis in my fingers, calcium deposits in my wrist, and 10% less hearing than I used to. I am a physical wreck.
• We see women at their worst. Their hair is wet, they have foils on their hair, they have no make up on. There’s nothing for them to hide behind. So they tell us everything. The truth is, the stylist really don’t care what they do in their private lives.

Do You Actually Like Your Friends?

If you had to think about that question, chances are you need to take our quiz. Because understanding the dynamics of your friendships will make them stronger.


Take a minute to think about your best friend. Really think about her. What’s the first thing that comes to mind? Trust? Loyalty? Competitiveness? Annoyance? As dark as it sounds, many of our friendships are subconsciously based on underlying themes of envy (when her man whisked her off abroad), dislike and anger (how come her love life takes up all your energy?). These negative emotions can either knit the relationship together or, if suppressed, bubble over into blazing rows and week-long sulks.

Although it’s normal to not love everyone 24/7, remember that the friendships you cultivate – and how you deal with them – actually speak volumes about you. But whatever your bond is built on, there is a way to make it unbreakable. Simply take our quiz, with one specific friend in mind (begin with your best friend), for advice on how to have a healthier, happier friendship, starting today.

The Friendship Test
1. Your friend tells you she’s going on a diet for your holiday together. Do you:
A. Tell her she looks fantastic the size she is.
B. Make all the right noises but find yourself tempting her with an odd chocolate or two.
C. Worry that she’ll look better on the beach than you.
D. Offer encouragement and buy her diet books and some state-of-the-art bathroom scales.

2. Your friend buys you anti-wrinkle cream for your birthday. You think:
A. It’s a joke. You’ll get her a bus-pass holder!
B. You’re delighted. It’s an expensive brand and an incredible treat.
C. You take it as an insult and start planning how to let her know you’re offended.
D. You book yourself in for Botox immediately.

3. Your friend has been made redundant and asks if there are any jobs at your firm. You:
A. Not only ask HR, but put in a glowing. recommendation for her as well.
B. Lie and say there are no vacancies. She’s a great mate, but you’re not sure she’s got what it takes.
C. Wonder why she’s muscling in on your territory.
D. Start planning all the fun you’ll have together on your lunch breaks.

4. How would you describe the way your friend looks?
A. Most people take you for sisters.
B. Equally attractive and as stylish as you, but with different colouring.
C. Very different to you, but your looks complement each other.
D. Gorgeous! You’re proud that she’s your friend.

5. Your parents’/partner’s attitude to your friend is:
A. That she’s OK, but sometimes they joke she’s a bit of a bad influence.
B. That she’s part of the family.
C. So-so, You find yourself having to stand up for her quite a lot.
D. Great. Sometimes they seem to like her more than you do!

6. You would describe your falling-outs as:
A. Epic. They tend to flare up over perceived slights and then last for months at a time.
B. Small irritations. She has a few traits or habits that you find annoying now and again, but your rarely say or do anything about them.
C. You don’t fall out. You never let it get to that stage.
D. You shout and row occasionally, but you always hug and make up right away.

7. How do you normally communicate with each other?
A. Text and email. It’s your own personal blogging system and you miss nothing during the day.
B. You always phone, at least once a week or more.
C. You meet up and do your talking face-to-face.
D. It’s almost by osmosis. Even if you don’t see her for a while you can always guess how she’s feeling.

8. How do you think your friends would describe you?
A. Funny, loud, spontaneous.
B. Successful, dynamic.
C. Someone who understands them and is always there for them.
D. Paranoid, insecure and in need of regular cheering up.

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Suppressed Friendship
You’re aware your friend can be annoying but you’re avoiding conflict to the point where you’re in danger of turning passive-aggressive, i.e. sitting on a whole barrel-load of simmering resentments until they boil over into one great potentially lethal row.
Why do you find your friend so difficult to talk to? You’re happy to chat about other problems with her, but not the one that’s bugging you the most, which is her. Your desire for approval and avoidance of any communication that might compromise the ‘serene’ nature of your relationship needs some analysis – is your friend dominating your life? Does she call the shots over most of the major decisions? Fear seems to be a big factor here, which is rarely a good basis for a strong friendship.
How To Reboot This Friendship
First, write down a list of all the things your friend does that you feel are unfair or that irritate you. Now delete anything that you feel is more about you – i.e. anything that most people would judge to be normal. Next discuss problems calmly, face to face, but focus on future change rather than old whinges. Let her know all the things you value about her as a friend.

26-49
Competitive Friendship
You’re the Blair and Serena of the friendship world, warring your way through life and seeing your friend as part mate, part rival. In many ways you’d die for each other, but sometimes you’d happily kill each other, too! Trust can be an issue with you. Would you really trust your friend alone with your man? Probably not. But then she probably wouldn’t trust you either.
You use this friendship to achieve success in your life – allowing emotions like jealousy to spur you on to achieve more – or you secretly like it because, despite the rows, you know life’s never boring with her.

How To Make This Relationship More Positive
Competitive friendships tend to survive best when there is space for developing separate areas of accomplishment. Discover individual strengths and talents that you can pursue (rather than following each other through life) and that should build respect rather than envy. And remember to praise your friend when she achieves her dreams!

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Balanced Friendship
Your friendship is based on honesty and trust, which means you know your friend’s there for you, but you don’t abuse that facility. If you do ever fall out, you make up fast, and before any damage is done. There’s a lot of compromise in your relationship. You may contribute different things, but you bring equal amounts and your relationship is complementary and fair.

How To Sustain This Relationship
Take some time to analyse your friendship and its greatest value or role in your life. Is it based mainly on fun and socialising? Business and career discussions? Take note of how much time is invested in each aspect and then see how the other three could also become staples in your relationship, if necessary. Could you provide better emotional support by honing your listening skills? Could you discover more about your friend’s career or life plans? Do you need to beef up the socialising, going out together at least one night a week? Any work will help make your relationship multi-dimensional, meaning fewer feelings of loss when either of you take a change of direction in your lives.

symptom of depression

There are actually a lot of symptoms of depression that depressed people may actually posses but they don’t have to suffer from each and every one of them before you actually help them get diagnosed and be treated for this illness. Also, since symptoms of depression actually vary, the time of their “attacks” varies as well.

Here are some common examples of symptoms of depression:

Prolonged period of sadness or not feeling “up to it,” people who are always feeling not in the mood, who’d rather mope around the house and feel sorry for one’s self is the best example for this symptom of depression.

Feels hopeless, perennial pessimist: speaking of feeling sorry for one’s self, another common symptom of depression is when a person actually feels like he/she has nothing to look forward to in his or her life. As for being the perennial pessimist, those who show this symptom of depression are usually very negative about things, again, the feeling of hopelessness comes in to mind.

Guilt-driven, loss of self-worth and helplessness: other symptoms of depression that can be easily seen on people who prefer to mope around all day long are these. Whenever a person feels so guilty over something, that actually makes one a very sad person who feels like he or she doesn’t deserve to be happy. Thus, the loss of self-worth, if that person feels like he or she isn’t worthy of being happy or enjoying one’s self then that’s clear tell-tale symptom of depression. Helplessness also contribute to being depressed, when assuming that things won’t simply go your way, it’s already a clear saying that you have absolutely no hope in your body at all.

Isn’t interested in finding or taking pleasure; just dropping the hobbies as well as the other things that one used to enjoy: this tell-tale symptom of depression just shows how depressed a person can be, if one is actually too sad to take pleasure even in the very things that one loves then that person is seriously lacking something, rather, that person might well have caught the depression bug.

Fatigue, always tired: people suffering from depression, since they’ve lost whatever interest in life that they may have had before are actually lacking of physical energy at all times, if one would prefer to just mope around, probably won’t even eat not get enough sleep, a depressed person may well be on their way to not just a mental illness but depression can actually be terrible for one’s physical health as well.

Having trouble concentrating, having bad memory and is indecisive: a person who is suffering from depression easily gives away this tell-tale symptom of depression. Wherein one’s lack of interest with regards to the outside world or for just about anything for that matter can lead to that person’s inability to lose track of things and actually not be able to remember things that happened or what other people said. Lack of interest actually makes depressed people very inattentive.

There are actually more symptoms of depression that can actually help you see if a person (or you) needs to be brought to the doctor to get some help when it comes to depression: lacking sleep, sleeping too much or waking up at wee hours of the morning are all symptoms of depression (if it happens on a daily basis), appetite loss as well as eating too much may show one’s lack of enthusiasm for life. Be weary of sudden weight loss or weight gain in those around you. Being suicidal, talking about death, about wanting to die is another clear indication that that person is depressed. Being restless and irritable and physical symptoms that are usually brought about by poor mental health such as headaches, digestive disorders and various body pains.