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I don’t think you understand depression. There’s a big difference between depression and sadness … like the difference between purple and green. They are just not comparable. This is not shades of a different color. My personal experience is: “I’m sad” and that can mean… “I want to cry” But If im depressed can be like “I’m happy.., and yet.. I don’t see the point of living.”


I doubt the distinction between depressed and not depressed is all that clear.

I know scales like BDI 2 assign a number and use terms like:

– BDI-II scoring:

0-13 is considered none or minimal range depression;

14-19 mild depression;

20-28 moderate depression;

29-63 severe depression.

https://strokengine.ca/en/assessments/beck-depression-invent...

There is no objective cutoff point is what I'm saying.


> I don’t think you understand depression

I think I understand very well


Then maybe it was just a choice of words. My main point was that being depressed is not the same as being sad like being happy is not the same as being manic.




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