Let's talk about the differences between depression and sadness. Why does depression have nothing to do with sadness? Sadness is a feeling. We experience it when we lose something valuable and experience the loss of it. And then, having felt sad about something, the feeling of life comes in place of sadness. With depression, a person actually does not experience feelings. Moreover, if sadness is blocked, a person seems to freeze in something and this leads to depression. Sadness is the prevention of depression. Specific differences: With sadness, a person is sad ABOUT SOMETHING. With depression, a person suffers FROM depression. 2. Being sad is an active process. Through sadness, a person experiences loss. Depression is passivity towards one’s own life and lack of a sense of life, movement within. When sad, a person can and does experience other feelings, he feels alive. With depression, a person feels almost nothing. In the process of sadness, a person can be active, make decisions, and other things can make him happy. In depression, the will is blocked completely or partially. When sad, a person thinks about what he has lost. With depression, a person’s thinking is generally focused on a negative perception of the future and past (“Nothing good awaits me anymore”), oneself (“I’m a loser”), generalization (“I’ll never succeed,” “I’ll never get better” , “Everyone can, but I can’t”), powerlessness or feelings of guilt. When sad, a person wants to be sad. He doesn't want to have fun. A depressed person does NOT want to be sad. He wants to feel alive and get rid of the powerlessness and feeling of hopelessness that he has7. In sadness, a person finds consolation and you can console him, be with him in sadness, share it. In depression, a person does not accept consolation, it can even be annoying. Everything is perceived as darkness, fog, grayness, hopelessness. Therefore, the famous advice “don’t be sad” not only devalues ​​a person’s condition, but also has nothing to do with depression. A depressed person is not sad. But it happens that unlived grief leads to depression. When a person was unable to cope with the loss, feelings were blocked, the loss was not cried over, and then paralysis of feelings occurs.