How do you go about identifying depression rather than laziness as a reason for your inactivity?

And for other people's inactivity?

Asking those who have the illness and/or have someone who does in their lives

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When you are severely depressed , in most cases, you lack motivation to even stay alive. Doing your laundry , for instance , becomes irrelevant cause you don’t see the purpose of it , and maybe if you do see, it doesn’t matter. Everything becomes irrelevant when the constant thought in your head is to stop existing. That’s what someone close to me told me, when he was going through that.