Depression and physical symptoms?

Hi, I'm basically curious about my situation.

My main issues are chronic fatigue, insomnia, appetite loss, constant gastric issues - cramps, diarrhoea, feels like whatever I eat shoots through me without being absorbed - difficulty keeping weight on.

Now, I understand these are often symptoms of depression.

When I wake up in the morning, I normally WANT to jump out of bed and get on with my day, but then I remember I'm terribly fatigued, and going for even a half hour walk is a huge struggle, being able to stomach a breakfast is a challenge, functioning generally is almost impossible - and with that, I begin to feel depressed and as time drags on and I simply can't summon energy from anywhere, sometimes bad thoughts come to mind, sometimes I can ride it out and just mope about for the day.

Now, I am quite socially withdrawn, but, I became chronically withdrawn at about 21 years of age, the same time these fatigue and insomnia issues began to surface.
Previous to that, I was no social enigma, but I did function - have friends, party, meet girls etc.

I'm just gone 29, and since that time, it's been deteriorating, in terms of energy and degree of withdrawal.

My question being, does that sound like a product of depression, or is depression a product of my state?

It might be worth noting, that when I have a day where I'm even semi-functional, I don't feel particularly depressed at all.
I would even say I'm upbeat, certainly considering my situation - unemployed, non-functional etc.
But could it be like, latent depression in a way? Where I experience the symptoms, but don't feel overtly depressed?


PS - Doc put me on 40mg prozac, to no effect on the symptoms, so he took me off again

Jeez, not a lot of activity around here...

Jimmy Dreggs wrote:Jeez, not a lot of activity around here...

Well, we ARE depressed.....

Well let's see. I have all the signs of chronic depression, though I don't always feel depressed. I think it's more an undercurrent. At any rate every self test I've ever taken the result is omg get help now don't kill yourself....

But between that, I suppose, and severe anxiety I've gone thru periods of extreme fatigue and the symptoms were very much as you describe! Asleep, start to wake up, feeling good then, after a certain level of consciousness is reached it was like a light switch was clicked and the extreme fatigue kicked in for the day. As if I had to remember I felt like I was dying. Very odd.

You must think this way: you are an happy person, a social person, but one part of you feels something wrong, more you split this part, the bigger you (this construction is difficult for me in English, maybe is wrong) are happy, social; more you compress this part, the bigger it jumps out.
So when you are so full of life you are compressing so much the other part (and you are so full of life BECAUSE you are splitting that part) that the other one displays itself in a covert way (because it is very remote from you so explode from another course).

This is usually what happens in a psychological pattern.

But its better you demand clinical analysis.

If all its ok you must discover and signify the other part and hear what its saying.