Emotional

• Emotional characteristics of depression

  Ways in which people feel.
• Lowered mood (At least 2 weeks- consistently)

  Lowered mood is defining emotional element of depression and is more pronounced more than in daily kind of experience of feeling lethargic and sad. Sufferers often describe themselves as worthless and empty.
• Anger

  Sufferers frequently experience anger, sometimes extreme anger. Can be directed at self or others. ON occasion such emotions lead to aggressive or self-harming behaiour.
• Lowered self-esteem

  Sufferers of depression tend to report reduced self-esteem->liking themselves less than usual. Some describe a sense of self-loathing, i.e hating themselves