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Recognize how depression can make mood feel low, empty, numb, or unusually irritable. You’ll practice naming these shifts as changes in experience, not as personality flaws.
Use what you learned in the previous lesson to solve real-world problems.
Notice how activities that used to feel rewarding can start to feel dull, distant, or not worth the effort. You’ll compare “not enjoying it” with “not caring about anything,” since both can show up in daily life.
Check what you understood with a short quiz.
Trace how depression can make the body feel heavy, slowed down, restless, or drained even after small tasks. You’ll learn to separate low energy from laziness by looking at effort, fatigue, and recovery.
Identify common sleep changes, including trouble falling asleep, waking too early, sleeping much more, or never feeling rested. You’ll connect sleep disruption to the next day’s mood, focus, and energy.
Spot how appetite and body cues can shift toward eating much less, eating much more, craving comfort foods, or losing track of hunger. You’ll also notice body signals like aches, stomach discomfort, or tension that can travel with depression.
Recognize how depression can make reading, conversations, memory, planning, and decisions feel harder than usual. You’ll trace how attention problems can come from mental fog, worry loops, or low energy rather than lack of ability.
Name the everyday tasks depression can shrink: hygiene, chores, school, work, errands, messages, and social plans. You’ll reason through how avoidance can bring short-term relief while making life feel smaller over time.
Build a simple map of how changes can feed each other, such as poor sleep lowering energy, low energy delaying chores, and delayed chores increasing guilt. You’ll practice seeing a pattern in daily life without jumping straight to a diagnosis.
Review this chapter with practice based on your mistakes.
