Symptoms of depression may include sleep disturbance (usually early morning awakening), fatigue or loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt, diminished ability to concentrate or make decisions, agitation (anxiety or restlessness) or slowed movements, change in appetite with or without weight loss, and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
She could not sleep and woke up early morning, stopped eating and bathing, her ability to think and concentrate diminished markedly.
A few symptoms, such as feelings of guilt (8%) and diminished ability to concentrate (16%) were not very prevalent within this sample.
They also subjectively reported a diminished ability to concentrate, suffered frequent negative feelings and felt that their life was not meaningful.
Previous research highlights that depressive symptoms are associated with lower self-efficacy, negative attributions, and diminished ability to concentrate (10, 11).
Major depression is a mood state characterised by depressed mood and loss of interest or pleasure for at least 2 weeks, together with several other symptoms, such as loss of energy, diminished ability to concentrate, changes in appetite or physical activity and sleep disturbances.
Indeed, part of my own rejection of social media comes from this fear that these services will diminish my ability to concentrate — the skill on which I make my living.
In order to diminish the chloride concentration prior to determining arsenic concentrations by ICPMS, samples were repeatedly dissolved in 1 to 2 ml of trace-metal grade concentrated nitric acid and evaporated to dryness.
There's nothing like the diminishing of options to concentrate the mind.
Even in Israel, mentions are increasingly casual; farmers upset at diminishing returns from tomato concentrate have called ketchup their Auschwitz.
