When you're depressed: you cry a lot and it doesn't go away; you feel guilty for no reason; life seems meaningless and empty; it's hard to make up your mind; you feel worthless; you forget lots of things and it's hard to concentrate; you feel restless and tired most of time; you think about death or feel like you're dying.

Not everyone who is depressed experiences every one of these symptoms. And severity of symptoms can vary with individual and over a period of time. Some of more common symptoms include: an "empty" feeling (ongoing sadness), lack of energy, pessimism, difficulty in concentration and decision making, insomnia, appetite loss or overeating, being irritable, crying too often or too much, feeling worthless or hopeless, and thoughts of death or suicide.

Having these feelings doesn't mean that a person is a failure...it means they are ill and in need of treatment. There are a number of medical treatments now available and they do work--usually within a matter of weeks. There is no single cause of depression, but remember, it is a real medical illness and it IS treatable.

Most people with depression can be helped with psychotherapy, medicine or a combination of two. Psychotherapy means talking about your feelings with a trained professional who can help you change relationships, thoughts, or behaviors that contribute to depression.

Medication has recently been developed that effectively treats severe and disabling depression. Anti-depressant medications are not "uppers" and are not addictive. Sometimes, however, several types may have to be tried before you and your doctor find one that works best. As with most medical problems, there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution for depression.

The most important thing to remember--you are not alone! When problems seem too big and you're feeling low for too long, you CAN find help, it is affordable, and you CAN get better.

The control test should be a mold test kit left open on ground outside building and at least five feet beyond drip edge of room. Use same time (thirty minutes to one hour) that was utilized in indoor air tests for settling method tests. There should be no rain or snow falling.

Self-Interpretation of Mold Test Kit Results

The tester can then either watch test kits himself for mold growth, with self-interpretation of mold test kit results, over a seven day time period, or send mold test kit to mold lab immediately, or after self-observation growth period.

Here is how to self-interpret visible mold growth in mold test kits after seven days of mold growth---

1. If tester observes and count a greater number of mold colonies of any particular mold colony type (possessing same or similar color, shape and/or structural pattern) growing in one indoor mold test kit than in outdoor control mold test kit, then tester can reasonably decide that there is a possible indoor-generated mold infestation in area/location involved in that particular mold test.

2. If tester observes a particular mold colony type growing in a particular indoor mold test sample that is NOT present in outdoor control mold test, then tester can reasonably conclude that there is a possible indoor-generated mold infestation in area/location in which he conducted that particular mold test.

3. If tester observes three or more of same mold colony type growing in one mold test kit, then tester can reasonably conclude that there is a possible mold infestation in area/location in which he conducted that particular mold test, regardless of number of similar mold colonies present in outdoor control test.

Why is that conclusion possible? Consider this rat analogy: if there are only three rats living inside a particular area of one’s home or building, is there no indoor rat problem just because there are more rats living immediately outside of home or building?

It is time-cumulative exposure and body intake of even modest numbers of indoor airborne mold spores that makes residents or occupants sick from mold exposure. Because residents or occupants spend many hours per day indoors in a home or workplace, they are continually inhaling or ingesting mold spores.

When mold spores enter into residents’ eyes, nasal/sinus areas, lungs, stomach (eating and drinking food and beverages upon which airborne mold spores have landed), or open body sores, mold-spores, once inside body, can begin dangerous mold growth inside body because of abundance of body moisture and food to eat (people’s bodies)!

4. If tester observes three or more of same mold colony types in several or many mold tests taken from different areas of home or building, tester can reasonably conclude that mold species is possibly widespread in its contamination of tested home or building.

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