We'll get started in just a few minutes. I have lots of friends who think that because they get down in the dumps they are depressed. What is the difference between feeling depressed and having depression and how can you distinguish the two from each other. There are very important differences between the two, and that is a very good question to ask. The blues are a normal, down feeling that we all get from time to time.
Clinical depression is an illness.
Clinical depression persists, continues, and nothing you do is going to make you feel better. A change in circumstances doesn't make it better. There are thousands of screening sites across the country. Depression is an illness, like heart disease or diabetes, and just as you can't snap out of heart disease, you can't snap out of depression. Many people know that something is wrong, but they don't know exactly what is wrong.