Clinical Depression In Hamlet

Ever since Hamlet's death, young Hamlet has been tortured by it and put into a depression. He never what caused it because he was told a lie. But when he was told the truth, he became violent and mad convincing, himself, Ophelia, and Polonius that he has become mad. Hamlet has been losing his mind because of the emotional instability he has been experiencing ever since his father died, because since then, he discovered the truth about his father's death.
With Hamlet’s father dying, he begins to feel depressed and lonely. Hamlet begins his spiral into madness after his father’s death. Hamlet starts to feel suicidal, shows mental instability, and emotional instability. When Hamlet says “too sullied flesh would melt”(1.2.137), he is actually talking about his own life and how he wouldn’t mind it being over. He also shows depression when he says “How stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world”(1.2.138). This shows how Hamlet is now experiencing clinical depression because he has lost his motivation to keep living as well as him not interested in anything. When Hamlet meets the ghost and becomes influenced by it, Hamlet can’t tell whether he is doing the right thing or the ghost is
tricking him. Hamlet says to himself “That spirit I have seen may be the devil… Out of my weakness and my melancholy"(2.2.628.630). Hamlet admits that he has flaws but because he has nothing else driving him to keep living, he uses this as his "reason" for being alive. He even wonders whether the ghost is there to help or to harm him. He says "Abuses to damn me”(2.2.632). Hamlet struggles with internal trouble as he talks with himself as if there were another person there. He is unable to use his judgement to determine what he should and what the right thing to do is.
Ophelia once interpreted his madness as a passionate love. However, after she has seen his rage, she has realized how he was falling into madness. Hamlet who originally pledged his love to her, just violently assaulted her "As if he had loosed out of hell. To speak of horrors-he comes before me"(2.1.93-94). From seeing how Hamlet can't control himself, and attacks someone who he claims to love, it shows how far he has gone into a dark abyss of madness. The fury that the Ghost was bottling up was all transferred to Hamlet during their conversation and now being used to harm someone Hamlet once loved by unleashing that bottled "hell". Ophelia realizes that Hamlet has become desperate and mad for someone to love after the loss of his father.
Polonius knew something was off about Hamlet from the start, but it mainly started as distrust with what he said and a lack of faith in his daughter.
Polonius thought that Hamlet was just mad with love as he was when he was a teen. Polonius realizes what Hamlet is experiencing and says, “He is far gone. And truly in my youth, I suffered much extremity for love, very near this”(2.2.205-208). Polonius shows that he understands what problems is facing at the moment as he could once relate to it. However, he also notices that Hamlet is farther gone than he had as a child, and this shows that yet another character thinks that Hamlet is losing his mind. Polonius found that Hamlet is becoming mad because of a strong desire for love which has been bottled
up.
Hamlet's mental instability has caused him to become mad. Ever since the apparition told him what had happened to him in his previous life, Hamlet has changed his mindset to one set on revenge; he devotes his life to one sole purpose. It causes him to act out of the norm and causes his actions to be based on how make others feel pain about something they can't forget.