Atypical Depression Symptoms
One symptom of atypical depression is feeling like your legs and arms are just too heavy to move. Another major symptom is mood reactivity. A person with mood reactivity will be happy and cheerful when something good and exciting is happening and as soon as it’s over, they will return to their depressed state. This is one thing that makes it difficult to diagnose atypical depression in young people because they are already going through mood swings. This makes it very hard to tell the difference between what is normal and what is not. Unfortunately, atypical depression usually begins affecting a person when they are very young during this already critical time in their life.
It is considered a chronic syndrome and can begin when a person reaches their teenage years. It is also believed that it can cause more functional impairment than you will find in people with other types of depression. Atypical depression can completely interfere with a person’s social and professional life. It makes them feel useless and they avoid interacting with others because they are afraid of saying or doing something wrong that will get them negative attention. This condition tends to affect more women than it does men with about seventy percent of all cases reported being women. A person that suffers from atypical depression is more likely to have other disorders such as avoidant personality disorders, social phobias and panic attacks.
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