5 Things You Don't Know About Atypical Depression

Nothing's what it seems

1. As you might have figured, it is nothing like normal depression

Via ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

A person with atypical depression experiences increase in their appetite and weight most of the time, there's a feeling of leaden heaviness in the whole body and hypersomnia also takes place.

2. It is often misdiagnosed and confused with Bipolar Disorder

And it is because there is also a lot of mood swings. Some even call it "Soft Bipolarity". A person with atypical depression can feel very good when they receive stimulation from other people, but when they get home their world starts to fall apart for absolutely no reason. This is called mood reactivity (ability to feel better temporarily in response to positive life event)

3. Apparently, there's something called Interpersonal Rejection Sensitivity

Via blogs.psychcentral.com

If YOU have atypical depression, congrats. You no longer have to feel like a sensitive wining little dramaqueen, because you're not. It is literally your disease.

"Interpersonal rejection sensitivity is a hyper-alertness to the social reactions of others. When someone has rejection sensitivity, they anxiously expect and rapidly perceive and overreact to rejection. Because of their fears and expectations, individuals with rejection sensitivity may misinterpret and distort the actions of others. They then react with hurt and anger. The other person is confused, doesn't understand, or sees the rejection sensitive person as too high maintenance."

4. There's a huge lack of awareness

Atypical depression may be the one of the most common types of depression — and some doctors even believe it is underdiagnosed.

— Land of Psychology (@landpsychology) 27 de abril de 2016

5. You are not alone

Of course you already know this

Plus, we have a killer sense of humour about our shit

just learned i have atypical depression. shit man, i cant even be depressed right

— maya (@punkassbutch) 21 de abril de 2016