Yeah, I'm definitely depressed. Not just unusually negative thoughts and sadness. For those who don't suffer from chronic depression, it can be hard to understand or react the right way. Not that this quote is insensitive, mind you, because it's true. It's just hard to hear it all the time during depression. People often talk of "What is depression?" and then list lots of things that are hard about it, and I don't think it really works to make people understand. So I try to explain, depression isn't sadness or even "deep sadness". To depress is to push down, and psychiatric "depression" is quite simply an abnormal "pushing down" of the brain cells' ability to create, emit, and/or absorb chemicals called neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters allow the cells to interact. So if your brain is having neurotransmitter depression, it's not just that you feel bad and need to cheer up. It's not actually possible to cheer up. The sufferer needs rest and selfcare until it passes, and for many, medication to adjust those chemicals to assist in that. And it affects the whole brain: Sufferers become physically clumsy and sluggish, reading and speech comprehension become more confused, speech becomes more slurred as the mouth becomes sluggish as well, eating and sleeping habits are altered, thoughts and memory function become foggy and tend closer to negativity or suicidal ideation,...Read more...

it's so hard sometimes, but it is true.