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 is a natural human emotion. It can come and go after a bad day, a breakup, work stress, or personal disappointment. However, depression is not just a temporary feeling of sadness or low ...

Amit Verma (name changed on request) walked into a psychologist’s clinic convinced he was depressed. It had been months since his mother fell ill, months since a relationship ended without drama but ...

I often hear my clients say, "I don't want to discuss this subject—I don't want to be sad and get depressed." Depression is indeed accompanied by sadness, so connecting depression with sadness is ...

Depression affects millions of people worldwide, manifesting through various emotional, cognitive, and physical symptoms. While everyone experiences occasional sadness, clinical depression involves ...

Depression is a complex and deeply personal experience. While almost everyone has periods of sadness, low mood or grief, depression is different. Major depressive disorder is persistent, interferes ...

Apr. 3, 2025 -- Feeling down from time to time is normal, but how can you tell when sadness is something more – like major depressive disorder? We spoke with Jessi Gold, MD, MS, the first chief ...

When you are in the middle of a very sad time in your life, you may worry that your feelings are a sign of depression.

Everyone feels down sometimes. Bad weeks happen — disappointments pile up, energy drops, and life feels harder than usual. But when does normal sad or down feelings become clinical depression? The ...

’Tis the season for recognizing seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Just don’t expect to find SAD in diagnostic handbooks. As a memorable term, SAD “stuck in the general public, and to some extent ...

On laptop screens, televisions and social media feeds across the nation, images and words fueled by a fractured political landscape spout anger, frustration and resentment. Clashing ideologies burst ...