Depression is diagnosed when people:

• Suffer five (or more) of the symptoms described below during the same 2-week period including either symptoms of low mood or loss of interest and pleasure.
• These symptoms represent a change from normal.
• The symptoms cause significant distress or make it difficult or impossible to work effectively or socialize or continue with other important aspects of normal every day life.

When you felt low did you:

1. Feel down or depressed most of the day, almost every day?
2. Lose interest or pleasure in things or find it very difficult to enjoy acitivties that you would normally enjoy almost every day?
3. Experience a significant increase or decrease in appetite or a significant change in weight (not due to dieting)?
4. Did you find it difficult to sleep almost every night (trouble falling asleep, staying asleep or waking very early) or sleep too much?
5. Were you very physically restless or very slowed down in your movements or speech so that other people noticed you were not your normal self?
6. Feel very tired or lacking in energy almost every day.
7. Feel worthless as a person or guilty about things (other than simply the fact that you were depressed and the impact this was having on your life).
8. Did you find it very difficult to think or concentrate almost every day? Was it difficult to make decisionas about even insignificant things?

9. Were you bothered by thoughts of death (not just fear of dying) or recurrent suicidal thoughts, or did you make a suicide attempt?

If after reading the above you believe you may have had clinical depression in the past, you may well be eligible to take part in our trial. We would definitely like to hear from you. Please get in touch with us for further information.