Disease Database Drug Database Alt. Rosenthal says that women's life events commonly trigger depression. These events include violence, poverty, workplace stress, hormonal factors and impossible beauty standards as well as infertility and the losses experienced in various relationships. Sadness and depression are a continuum.
Sadness involves a lot of feeling.
Depression is a flatness. There certainly are cross-overs. Depression is a point beyond sadness. Sadness is sometimes mobilizing in that it can make you feel something. Depression, on the other hand, is immobilizing.