Because of the sheer obviousness of our sadness, we’re often forced to try to use it to describe depression. We say that we’re just extremely sad, or unhealthily sad, or a different kind of sad. It’s sadness that never goes away like sadness is supposed to. It’s sadness that’s out of proportion to the troubles that we face in our lives. It’s sadness that we can’t stop thinking about. For those of us with bipolar or cyclothymic disorder, it’s sadness that comes and goes much too quickly. The truth is that sadness actually has very little to do with depression, except that it is one of its many possible symptoms.
Miriam Mogilevsky, Depression Is Not Sadness: Junior Seau and Public Discourse on Mental Illness

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