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If you or someone you care about answers yes to five or more of these questions (including questions #1 or #2)...and if the symptoms described have been present nearly every day for 2 weeks or more, you should consider speaking to a health care professional about different treatment options for depression.

Answer these questions

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Do you or they feel a deep sense of depression, sadness, or hopelessness most of the day?    
Have you or they experienced diminished interest in most or all activities?    
Have you or they experienced significant appetite or weight change when not dieting?    
Have you or they experienced a significant change in sleeping patterns?    
Do you or they feel unusually restless...or unusually sluggish?    
Do you or they feel unduly fatigued?    
Do you or they experience persistent feelings of hopelessness or inappropriate feelings of guilt?    
Have you or they experienced a diminished ability to think or concentrate?    
Do you or they have recurrent thoughts of death or suicide?    

Other explanations for these symptoms may need to be considered. Adapted from American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Fourth Edition. Washington, DC. American Psychiatric Association: 1994

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