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> We need another word for what is described above. Most people understand ordinary depression, because most people feel down sometimes No we don't, it's calle
by mhurron 10y ago
> We need another word for what is described above. Most people understand ordinary depression, because most people feel down sometimes
No we don't, it's called depression.
What we need is people to realize that depression is not 'people feel down sometimes.' That is feeling down. Depression is not something that you just work through, it is an actual, real thing going on in your brain.
But hell, most people act like armchair psychologists so ya, lets create another term that they'll also misuse.
- labrador 10y agoI feel like the word depression has been watered down.
- mhurron 10y agoAny word you try to create for the same thing would be as well because it would be the new word for it. Also, there is Depression (condition) and Depression (colloquial usage) that's the way language works. The problem is not that the word is used, but that people believe the colloquial usage is the medical usage. They believe that when they feel depressed (colloquial) they just eat a cake or do something they like to get over it so why can't you when you're depressed (actual medical depression).
- labrador 10y agoI see your point. "deep depression" or "clinical depression" are probably good enough.