Are you Sad or Depressed?

But there are times when depression it doesn't feel like sadness. It feels like heaviness, like shutting down, like losing motivation even when nothing obvious went wrong. So you can't pinpoint exactly what it is. And that's usually when you start wondering why does this keep happening to me? What is going on? You try to explain it away perhaps as stress or exhaustion or burnout, but something doesn't fully fit. something doesn't fully make sense. What makes this confusing is that these lower states, these depressive states show up after you've already been coping for a long time. You've been functioning. You've been holding things together as best you can, managing relationships, expectations, emotions. So when that depression hits, those depressive symptoms hit or it comes back, it feels random or even worse, it feels very personal. It's almost like a personal attack. can also feel like you have failed