Persons with mild or moderate symptoms
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People opt for help from a professional help person when they feel that they are suffering from their own problems. They also find that their well-wishers, close ones also suffer because of their problems.
Their problems affect their behavior in terms of their talking, relating body language. This change can be sudden / slowly developed over a period of time. They may feel that they have become resistant to suggestions by others.
A few symptoms are felt by persons themselves -
- worry about themselves or about others
- become afraid suddenly
- feel like crying for apparently no reason
- students don't feel like studying
- get marks much less than their expectations
- have developed temper
- feel like sitting alone
- feel restless
- are quick to pick up fight
- get undue tension about any small thing
- feel diffident to face certain things
- become indecisive
- feel depressed
- may think of a possibility of suicide
- feel lonely/alienated
- feel unsafe/insecure
- have disturbed sleep
- come to know that they are trapped in cyclical thoughts
- feel ashamed / guilty
- may get fired / change jobs frequently
- may face loss in business
- worry about their social position /status
- are frequently drifted in thoughts about past
- get body pains
- get headache
- feel directionless
- get inferiority complex / feel envious about other successful persons
- their body weight increases/decreases