How Sadness Is Different From Depression

How Sadness Is Different From Depression

[@patriot1303]

Depression has haunted me my whole life. Its not always that bad and i have good days even good weeks but i know its back when no matter what i do, don’t drink get enough sleep, eat and take care of myself ultimately the grey fog comes back and its unshakeable. I can sleep it off for a day but then its back the very next day or worse when i get up. The only thing that breaks it is alcohol which brings on its own problems and so I’ll quit the alcohol for months but then one day its the unbreakable fog again day after day and im lost

[@JoeZUGOOLA]

Try jogging

[@dogyamato5619]

Ye once you've been depressed, you do get a strong sense that people are labelling themselves with something that they don't have. Owing to it being overly prescribed. Depression is not the same as feeling sad. There is a personal element that is lacking in depression, that makes it very much out of your control. It doesn't feel like I am depressed or I am sad, it is more the case of being affected by depression. For example, I was recently anemic and through that my mood got very low. And it is claimed that anemia causes depression. But, being aware of how that feels I knew it wasn't because I didn't feel in someway detached from that low feeling, like you do with depression. Which is not to say that it a low mood doesn't need treatment if it's not depression - on the contrary it just needs to be treated differently (more appropriate). If the low mood was the first sign I had of anemia and I didn't know how depression feels then I would have thought it was depression and potentially prolonged the appropriate response to my condition.