A psychological discomfort that should not be minimized.
They accumulate without paying attention to it, but some signs are typical of a deterioration in mental health. These signs are witnesses to a psychological discomfort and should not be minimized. “Often, we tend to tell ourselves that they are passengers, that it is only a phase. But if these signs settle in the long term, the risk is to further deteriorate our mental health, sometimes until depressionwarns psychologist Amélie Boukhobza.
Mental health that is deteriorating impacts sleep. The person presents difficulties of falling asleep, a sleep punctuated by night awakenings … The mood fluctuates between anger, sadness and irritability. “You get angry without apparent reason, you are not supporting frustrations.” The expression of emotions is disproportionate. You take everything bad, everything is perceived as reproaches, even the small questioning. At the same time, there is a “disinterest in everything you love until then. ” You don’t want anything, you lose the notion of pleasure. And as you lack enthusiasm and you lose interest, you refuse invitations or outings outside or “Social isolation inevitably leads to a withdrawal on oneself”.
And a feeling of weariness grows: “It should not be confused with sadness. Here, nothing beats it, everything exhausts you, everything loses its meaning, as if nothing deserved the little energy you have left.” In the same way, there is the feeling of being overwhelmed and of no longer succeeding in organizing, to concentrate. Generally all these signs occur after a first symptom to which the person does not pay attention by saying that he is “normal” but no. This is chronic fatigue. It is a fatigue that does not pass, even after a good night’s sleep. “It is not just a lack of sleep that is corrected after a few quality nightsspecifies Amélie Boukhobza. You are not resting when you wake up, everything costs you in effort. You are permanently tired. “
“It is therefore an accumulation of small changes which must alert to say that mental health begins to deteriorate, without necessarily falling into depression” describes the specialist. In this case, “I recommend consulting at least once his attending physician or a psychologist, who will be able to follow the evolution of these symptoms. Only a professional is able to differentiate a transient depression from a start of depression. Sometimes, a single consultation may be enough to help you improve your psychological health.”
