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Hopelessness
Hopelessness is a clinical finding in which a person feels despair, or that there is no hope in certain or all situations of his life. This can occur with depressive disorders.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
14 year experience in family medicine
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A 45-year old asked:
How do you get rid of feelings of hopelessness?
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A 40-year old asked:
What causes unhappiness and hopelessness? Just low serotonin? What foods increase serotonin?
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A 43-year old asked:
I had a hysterectomy (still have ovaries) 4 months ago. I have never had depression or feelings of hopelessness before. Is this normal?
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A 49-year old male asked:
Im embarrassed to ask - but constant feelings of hopelessness. Meds and new therapist help only minorly. pl help im going thru a bad acute phase. ty?
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A 23-year old female asked:
Sadness, hopelessness, interest loss in people and activities, loneliness, crying, self-hurting on anger blackouts. & more, am I having a depression?
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A 66-year old female asked:
What csuses low frre thyroxiinre (0.66) and what is treatment. sympons are FATIGUe, depression, joint pain and hopelessness?
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A 18-year old female asked:
I'm not sure what's wrong with me. Last month I felt so amazing, now I can't even get out of bed. I just feel emotionally numb and I feel hopeless.
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A 18-year old female asked:
I have anxiety and I get dizzy .The dizziness scares me so much I am anxious of being anxious .It's ruining my life I'm only 18 and I feel hopeless:(?
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A 40-year old female asked:
Is there treatment+hope 4 me. I feel I have somatization+hypochondriasis, I feel hopeless and ill live my life in constant fear. I used to be normal.?
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A 45-year old asked:
I am hopeless about my sex life. What can i do to get better?
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A 39-year old asked:
How can i help someone with serious mental illness who feels hopeless?
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A 23-year old male asked:
I am 23 and I tried to gain weight but it is hopeless, would babies cerelac work?
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A 31-year old male asked:
Are anti depressants a good option if im feeling hopeless and very depressed from a failed relationship.?
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A 33-year old female asked:
I'm currently recovering from meth addiction. A lot of what I read online is negative and makes me feel hopeless. I really can be okay again, right?
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A 26-year old male asked:
i feel sick all the time, i go see my doctor and ive done a million test and everything is ok. they say its anxiety. the thing is my body hurts all the time and i feel tired. this makes me feel hopeless. i feel like im crazy, what should i do or what kind
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A 25-year old female asked:
Is there a medical term for having lots of energy/most productive and simultaneously in mood/cognition wishing you were dead, cynical, and hopeless?
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A 24-year old female asked about a 39-year old female:
My thoughts seem out of wack, I'm afraid to see a doctor. Life seems meaningless and hopeless. What should I do? And I won't see a doctor or therapist
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A 37-year old asked:
How do i recover from my eating disorder when i feel so alone and hopeless?
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A 27-year old female asked:
I have dark underarms. I have tried many whitening and dermatogist suggestion but to jo avail kind of hopeless.. pls help?
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A 33-year old female asked:
I need a medicine that does not make you gain weight that works for OCD. I feel like a hopeless cause. My OCD is being fat! Help!?
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A 50-year old male asked:
My molar is crowned 2 months ago, root canal was done 3 weeks age same molar. I am still having a bit of pain on outer edge of crown. Is it hopeless?
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A 23-year old female asked:
So anxious all the time and constantly worried I might be dizzy. so anxious and worried I can't live like this anymore. please help. feeling hopeless?
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A 33-year old female asked:
I've been treated for depr. with PTSD for 5 yrs with dif. meds and Drs. I'm feeling pretty hopeless that it will ever go away. I want to get on w life?
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A female asked:
Taking 60 mg Prozac (fluoxetine). Really struggling w/ depression. Feel hopeless and lifeless and its hard to care anymore. I want to feel better again?
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A member asked:
Feeling of emptyness down in the pit of my stomach. a hopeless feeling but feeling it physically as well as mentally. a sick empty hopeless feeling. nervous and antsy. batteling it for about 15 years and it comes and goes. but been feeling it more than us
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A 39-year old asked:
Is it possible to lose weight with hypothyroidism or is it hopeless?
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A 41-year old asked:
What do you advise if I've been feeling deep hopeless & suicidal depression since losing both my parents. how do i cope?
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A 27-year old female asked:
I feel so stress nd miserable I feel like I don't even have a life I feel so hopeless I'm see a psychologist for this but it not helpin me wat to do?
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A 24-year old female asked:
My mom will go for treatment for her stage4 cancer soon. She'll take medicine too. Anyway, does this still hopeless? Or still have chance to control?
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A 26-year old female asked:
I was a meth addict & just recently got clean.But now I'm 26 with meth mouth & don't know if there is anything that can be done. It feels so hopeless.
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