Sad or Depressed?

Are you really depressed or are you just sad?  If you’ve been told you’re depressed but just feel really sad, learn the difference between clinical depression and normal sadness.

1. Life is a mixture of both happy and sad.  This is normal and natural.

·        To accept life in its fullness is to understand that life is a mixture of both happy and sad.

2. It is okay to be sad because sometimes things are sad.
   • We are okay with happy but we have trouble with sad and yet there are as many opportunities in a day to be sad as there are to be happy. 

3. Depression results when you do not deal with your sadness.
   • We often think our sadness is depression, but it is not.  We get depressed when we don’t deal with our sadness. 
   • Sadness is part of every human life. 
   • When we lose something we get sad and when someone dies we get sad.

4. Anti-depressants take away the pain (really the anxiety), but keep us numb.

5. You must “feel” to get healthy.

6. The only way to heal is to feel.

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[A Girl]

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