It also annoys me when people "feel depressed today". If you learn to cope with it, you can have better and worse days, but it's a lifelong condition. Once you get it, it changes your brain structure forever and it always lingers in everything you do. If it only lasts a few days, it's sadness, not depression.

Yes and for sure, depression is far more than just being "sad". Sort of like looking longingly towards the door of a cage, but not being able to fly out...even it's open.
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I liken it to being encased in cement with no one who can set you free. Still able to see people all around you living life yet never being able to join in.

I often feel frozen . Like I am forcing myself to be alive.

This would be an opportunity to educate ppl what depression really is.

And when depression leads to psychosis, then it’s a total different story.

if people think depression is simply just being "sad" then they have never been truly depressed 🤷🏻‍♂