Depression is a horrible malady that's often hard to pin down. Situational depression is when you feel awful with a reason, like personal loss, trauma, or the world is falling apart, and clinical depression is a mental illness, but these lie on a spectrum and it's hard to determine where the line is. Medical science has some standards for diagnosis, but they can be subjective. There are no biological injuries that point out clinical depression, and treatments vary in effectiveness from person to person.
Adding to that, the very symptoms of depression make it hard to seek help. Then there's the stigma and expense attached to treatment. But it's very important to recognize the symptoms and seek help if you or someone you know is suffering from depression. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
The Science of Depression
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As you say, the symptoms of depression both slow you down - you just think about stuff as much as you normally do - and they make you feel efforts will fail.
That makes it dangerous to ignore - you can easily stay depressed for years, if you let yourself. The worst part is, some people are all, "I don't want no pills, I just feel a little down!" and they have anemia, or a thyroid issue, or some disease that saps energy, but is curable, etc.. So, by refusing treatment because it looks like "depression," they end up avoiding fixing a real, honest-to-goodness, purely physical malady.
Don't lose your life to depression. Not by letting it keep you down for years and years, and, especially not the other way.
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