Happy Faces Is The Real Face of Depression

  Mostly depressed patients has these hallmark signs:

Feeling sad or empty

Having little interest or pleasure in doing things

Experiencing a change in appetite with weight loss or weight gain

Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much

Being tired, fatigued, and having no energy

Feeling worthless or guilty that you have let yourself or your family down

Moving slowly or the opposite – being overly fidgety and restless

Having difficulty thinking or concentrating on things such as reading the newspaper or watching TV

Letting personal hygiene go – not bathing or dressing well

Recurring thoughts of hurting yourself or thinking that you’d be better off dead

But there are people who manage to show the world a happy facade.  And you know the reasons? They don't want their loved ones to worry. Maybe the situation is too much for her to share with anybody. Or the situation is too personal that confiding it with a family member is adding more stress to the person. 

Some doctors are calling it a smiling depression. Although this is still not a clinical diagnosis per se, it is very common. Smiling depression happens when the patient masked her symptoms. They hide behind a smile to make loved ones feel that they are okay ... that they are happy.

This type of depression sometimes remained undetected as the patient make all the effort to make her symptoms obscure. To the untrained, a depressed person is somebody who is very sad and has crying spells, & are unable to sleep or eat.

Individuals with smiling depression make use of her defense mechanisms as they often look happy to the outside world and keep their emotions bottled up.

Indeed the mind is difficult to understand, not to mention its complexities.