{"id":2432,"date":"2017-01-03T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2018-02-21T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:21:18","slug":"4-disorders-that-people-mistake-for-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/4-disorders-that-people-mistake-for-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Disorders That People Often Mistake for Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this article to be a great source of information and wanted to pass it along.\u00a0ExpandedConsciousness<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

Mental illnesses are not only incredibly hard to diagnose, but they can completely catch the afflicted off guard by developing at random times in one\u2019s life. Someone can be completely symptom free for a good portion of their life, only to develop some form of mental illness in their 20\u2019s, 30\u2019s, 40\u2019s, etc.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine waking up one day to a world that you believe is real, but really isn\u2019t? Many people with mental illness have to question their reality everyday. And there aren\u2019t many ways to test for it; it\u2019s often diagnosed based on self-reported symptoms.<\/p>\n

So, as you can imagine, people often get diagnosed with depression<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, but are really suffering from some other type of disorder altogether. In fact, a study conducted in 2009<\/a><\/em><\/strong> found that general practitioners could only correctly identify depression in about 47.3 percent of their cases.<\/p>\n

Here are for common disorders that are often mistaken as depression:<\/p>\n

Diabetes<\/strong>
\nPeople suffering from Type 2 diabetes may believe that they are simply suffering from depression as they can share many of the same symptoms, like loss of weight, irritability, and fatigue. Unfortunately, problems with insulin resistance have been significantly correlated to depression<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, making it even harder to properly diagnose.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also been found that people with diabetes develop quite a bit of stress in response to their condition. So, instead of their symptoms being caused by depression, it is actually the stress they are suffering from due to their chronic illness that is causing the depression-like symptoms<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Bottom line: if you have a chronic illness and are suffering depression-like symptoms, it\u2019s likely the illness that is causing you to ruminate.<\/p>\n

Bipolar Disorder<\/strong>
\nWhile depression and bipolar disorder<\/a><\/em><\/strong> both have people suffering from incredibly sad, \u201clow\u201d periods of time in their lives, those with bipolar disorder also ride extreme \u201chighs\u201d in life.<\/p>\n

People with bipolar disorder can mistake their condition for depression during their lows, as they feel completely hopeless, worthless and in extreme cases, suicidal. These are often followed up by periods of extreme highs where they\u2019re feeling confident, motivated and happy with their life.<\/p>\n

Read more HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Expanded Consciousness is a website focusing on breaking the chains of systematic thinking and bring about free thinking, compassion, and the expansion of one’s consciousness.<\/p>\n

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I found this article to be a great source of information and wanted to pass it along.\u00a0ExpandedConsciousness writes: Mental illnesses are not only incredibly hard to diagnose, but they can completely catch the afflicted off guard by developing at random times in one\u2019s life. Someone can be completely symptom free for a good portion of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[436,438,88,334,437,322],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthandvitality","tag-bipolar","tag-chronic-fatigue","tag-depression","tag-diabetes","tag-hypothyroidism","tag-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4933,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/4933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}