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Let me ask you a question: Are you really depressed?
I’m not trying to insult you. It’s a legitimate question. You see, the word ‘depression’ has become sort of a catch-all phrase that people throw around without really knowing what it means.
Let’s review some of the other emotions you may be feeling – either INSTEAD OF or in ADDITION TO depression. (The more you can sort out your feelings – the easier it is to work with them.) Worry and anxiety are not necessarily symptoms of depression. Of course, you can suffer from depression, worry and anxiety at the same time… but many who worry or have anxiety suffer no depression at all.
And many who experience depression feel no anxiety or worry.
Even crying spells are not necessarily a symptom of depression. I had them long before the depression set in, and they lasted long after the depression left. Although they often accompany depression – crying spells are usually (but not always) a combination of either grief or sorrow – some form of hurt.
(I know for me, there was also a lot of self pity mixed in as well!) Grief is a package of emotional pain you feel from a KNOWN event,such as the death of a loved one. Sorrow is the emotional pain you feel for no apparent reason at all. Grief and sorrow stand as separate emotions from each other – and from depression – although certainly you can esperience all three at the same time – or not. Also, many depressed people are simply beyond the point of crying.
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