When you're feeling down about your life and yourself, do you wonder if you're depressed or just plain sad? Should you be worried about your mood shifting, or should you just ride it out? Sadness ...

Depression affects over 18 million people (1 in 10) in the United States in a given year, so chances are you or someone close to you is intimately familiar with its effects on your life and mental ...

Depression can be an incredibly isolating experience, one that is challenging to fully grasp without experiencing it yourself. A quote about depression, whether brutally honest or hopeful and ...

We often hear the term “depression” thrown around lightly in conversation. We may come home from a stressful day at work and tell our family at dinner that we are depressed. We may have received some ...

Feeling sad from time to time is normal. We can feel sad for various reasons, such as learning our favorite coworker is leaving for another job, fighting with a loved one, or not achieving a personal ...

Is there a difference between “I’m so sad” and “I’m so depressed?” Many people might say no, insisting that these two words are easily interchangeable. It’s all too common to associate sadness with ...

Social media personas built on the illusion of happy, perfect lives are so tired. In 2019, it's all about being Sad Online. The era of being Sad Online is defined by a sense of reverse FOMO, a tacit ...

Many people use “depression” as shorthand for feeling low, while others dismiss depression as “just sadness”. Here, we explain the difference using clinicians’ cues: Trigger, duration, functioning, ...

Depression is often associated with persistent sadness, but the condition can manifest in other ways. Difficulty concentrating and changes in appetite, for example, can stem from depression regardless ...

People with depression listen to sad music because it makes them feel better, according to a small study that is one of the first to investigate why people turn to tearjerkers when they’re already ...