Depression Is Not Sadness! 💙

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Depression is not sadness. Sadness is a feeling that is experienced in response to a loss. So you may lose a relationship, you may lose prestige if you lose your job, you may lose a pet.

And when you think about the loss, you'll feel the sadness. And while you're in the middle of it, it may feel like is continuous. But after a short while, a couple of days, there will be periods where you don't think about the loss and you're not sad, then it comes back, you remember it again and you're sad again.

Depression is not like that. Depression is more of a feeling of emptiness, a feeling of hopelessness, a feeling of worthlessness and of having little to no emotions rather than feeling sadness. And depression does not come and go like feeling ebbs and flows.

Depression is a constant. So that's the difference between depression and sadness.