The term for normal sadness is desphoria. This may go on for a few days but it does not interfere with your every day functions. Depression is a dysfunction of the brain. When the brain has control, your feelings and mood don t work properly. Although teenage depression and adult depression are very similar, a psychologist told Street Cents that we teens present our depression differently.
Adults usually have a very low, sad mood when they're suffering from depression.
We teens act very irritable when we're depressed, but we don't know why we're irritable. We become lethargic and tired. Sometimes we eat a lot. We're also emotionally sensitive. Clinical depression lasts for a long period of time.