5 habits that make Millennials stressed and anxious

Here are the 5 signs you could be depressed but don’t know it yet.

Obsessive behaviours

Things like obsessive shopping, excessive eating or drinking and other addictive type give people a rush of euphoria.It’s like a ‘hit’ and enables them to feel something and ‘cope’,” she says. Marny notes that the problems come when the short term ‘rush’ or hit is over. “People might start repeating the behavior, so much so that it becomes difficult to control over time,” she says.

Sexual drive

Like obsessive behaviours, sex in the moment might be someone’s way of trying to ‘feel’ something that they perceive as positive. For people suffering from depression feeling a negative emotion is painful, so anything that may numb the negative emotion might seem attractive. So this short term pleasure becomes addictive because it feels good.

Binge drinking

Binge drinking goes further than just drinking for the enjoyment of alcohol, but rather, there is an intent of drinking for the sake of drinking. that often binge drinking is a coping behavior for a negative emotion and helps in numbing pain. People with depression don't know how to deal with negative feelings, so instead try to block them through excessive behaviours.

Irritability and inability to make decisions

When people are depressed and anxious, they focus usually more on the painful parts of life and any function secondary to survival, such as decision-making, problem solving and concentrating becomes harder. This leads to increased irritability, as people become overwhelmed with their own circumstances. Perfectionism

Thoughts such as ‘all or nothing’ come up, which means that many people don’t think they can achieve anything perfectly so they end up not even trying to achieve it. This results in feelings of worthlessness or uselessness, and then they start to perceive themselves as lazy.