I can't imagine the pain you must live with every day. I'm so sorry. The article does disambiguate between (what they call) "true sadness" and depression: > G

I can't imagine the pain you must live with every day. I'm so sorry. The article does disambiguate between (what they call) "true sadness" and depression: > Gold dismisses the common idea that depression is medicalised sadness, noting that “true sadness is often associated with cherished, loving memories of, for instance, a lost loved one, combined with grief over their loss, and, at times, a bittersweet feeling encompassing both the bounties of life and the harsh reality that all relationships must come to an end”. Such feelings, he says, are typically unavailable to seriously depressed individuals, whose emotional repertoire is constricted to “a deadening litany of self-excoriation and hopelessness”. And I think it is an important distinction. "Depression" has been treated as a catch-all term for what turns out to be a myriad of different causes that happen to look the same to an outside observer. I personally experience chronic inflammation due to Crohn's disease and it does cause depressive symptoms even though there isn't any major external reason that I should feel that way. And it makes no sense that the same treatment should be used in both of our cases.