Those who confuse being sad or down with depression have clearly never been depressed. Those who have never been depressed will never understand what it's actually like. The constant struggle to stay alive, the internal war between your heart, your brain and your soul. Being depressed is 100x worse than feeling sad or feeling down. It's a battle that hurts inside. I feel a lot of people use the term 'depressed' when they're actually not. Just because you're sad about something doesn't mean you're depressed. Depressed people can be utterly depressed and still laugh about something funny. It's hard to explain it and you can only understand when you go through it. You can't just 'snap out' of a depression. You can't just 'cheer up'. Saying 'it's not so bad' or 'it's not as bad as you think' are really not helping because you've got no idea of what I'm dealing with. Right now I'm not depressed. It just popped in my head just now that's all. That a lot of people actually don't know what depression is. Carry on.
