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Depression is having a negative outlook on life over an extended period of time that starts effecting your everyday decisions and causing you to withdraw from s

Depression is having a negative outlook on life over an extended period of time that starts effecting your everyday decisions and causing you to withdraw from social situations. It's an extension of being sad. Turn it around. If you're happy most of the time, it will be difficult for a psychiatrist to classify you as being depressed.

eshvk 14y ago
Sorry no offense, but you don't get depression. There are people who may have a "positive outlook" on life, appear to be happy go lucky and one fine day not be able to get out of bed due a to crippling overwhelming feeling of despair. This is not just an "extension of being sad.". You can't just shake a person who is depressed or throw a bunch of balloons or bring a bunch of relatives around this person and make them feel happy. Sometimes, a person who is depressed can't even explain why they are being depressed. Sadness doesn't work like that.
- khitchdee 14y ago
  There's despair and there's sadness. Can you highlight the difference?
  - chris_wot 14y ago
    I haven't withdrawn from life (except when I get very tired and need sleep), and I don't feel sad. I feel flat and empty. Others feel sadness, but it's not always that way.
ekianjo 14y ago
As the other poster said, this is NOT depression. Depression is much more than just that. Seriously, you have never met anyone depressed in your life if your definition of depression is limited to that. Depression is when someone you have known for many years as being normal becomes suddenly incapable of doing anything, incapable of any logical train of thought, and spending time talking too much, obsessed by things a normal person would consider as crazy, together with severe, extremely severe mood swings. Well, what i describe is ONE form of depression, but it's not just about remotely being sad. You really should inform yourself before having an opinion on anything.
- paulhauggis 14y ago
  "You really should inform yourself before having an opinion on anything." Oh? So we should be informing ourselves with more anecdotal evidence? "together with severe, extremely severe mood swings" This sounds like you are bipolar. Happy one day and sad the next is one of the clear signs of being bipolar.

eshvk 14y ago

Sorry no offense, but you don't get depression. There are people who may have a "positive outlook" on life, appear to be happy go lucky and one fine day not be able to get out of bed due a to crippling overwhelming feeling of despair. This is not just an "extension of being sad.". You can't just shake a person who is depressed or throw a bunch of balloons or bring a bunch of relatives around this person and make them feel happy. Sometimes, a person who is depressed can't even explain why they are being depressed. Sadness doesn't work like that.

khitchdee 14y ago
There's despair and there's sadness. Can you highlight the difference?
- chris_wot 14y ago
  I haven't withdrawn from life (except when I get very tired and need sleep), and I don't feel sad. I feel flat and empty. Others feel sadness, but it's not always that way.

ekianjo 14y ago

As the other poster said, this is NOT depression. Depression is much more than just that. Seriously, you have never met anyone depressed in your life if your definition of depression is limited to that. Depression is when someone you have known for many years as being normal becomes suddenly incapable of doing anything, incapable of any logical train of thought, and spending time talking too much, obsessed by things a normal person would consider as crazy, together with severe, extremely severe mood swings. Well, what i describe is ONE form of depression, but it's not just about remotely being sad. You really should inform yourself before having an opinion on anything.

paulhauggis 14y ago
"You really should inform yourself before having an opinion on anything." Oh? So we should be informing ourselves with more anecdotal evidence? "together with severe, extremely severe mood swings" This sounds like you are bipolar. Happy one day and sad the next is one of the clear signs of being bipolar.