They canceled Wedding Belles. Boy, am I depressed.
The price of gas is really depressing me.
Im turning 40 next month. What a depressing thought.
Go ahead and add your own cry of pain to the list, and then stop and ask why, if you are truly clinically depressed, you were watching a TV series as light an frothy as Wedding Belles, or driving around trying to save $.02 per gallon, or were even able to think as far ahead as next month.
The words depressed and depression are undoubtedly two of the most carelessly used in the English language. They are tossed about like bowling pins at a juggling competition, by those who understand very little about depression. Perhaps one reason that the facts about depression are so poorly misunderstood is that those who think they might be suffering from it are afraid of being stigmatized as whiners and complainers. So they neither talk to anyone about depression nor seek treatment for it.
Depression Vs. The Blues
True depression can surface in many ways, and have many underlying factors, but all diagnosed cases of clinical depression have one thing in common–their duration. Depression is...