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What is the difference between extreme sadness, unhappiness, and depression?

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Q. Lewis, I want to be a happier person and I’m exploring the symptoms of happiness as part of this process. The question keeps arising, what is the difference between being sad, unhappy, or clinically depressed?

A. Mental health professional all have their own way of making distinctions here, and clearly they are not uniform. I would say there is no clear definition concerning constant unhappiness and clinical depression. In fact, the line between extreme, chronic unhappiness and clinical depression is a thin one. It is easier to simply define the best symptoms of happiness and then see what is lacking.

Extreme unhappiness and chronic depression are the most commonly experienced emotional challenges and have been with us since the beginning of time. These emotional states have been known by many names including despair, melancholy, extreme unhappiness, and sadness. One of the reasons why these emotional states are so widespread is, in no small part, due to the fact that the words “extreme unhappiness”, and “chronic depression " encompass a wide range of physical and psychological symptoms. In its most extreme form, suicide can be the end result of extreme unhappiness and chronic depression.

Public perception and medical approaches to chronic unhappiness/ sadness/depression are determined by complex interactions among the public, the media, politicians, and the medical establishment. Chronic unhappiness/sadness/depression appears in many forms and at many levels of severity. In the early stages of the condition, a person may experience a single symptom or a combination of symptoms that have come to be associated with clinical depression. These symptoms may include loss of appetite, loss of interest in hobbies, various sleep disturbances (including insomnia), and loss of sex drive, among others.

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life, and good friends.

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The Takeaway

Being sad, unhappy, or having some depression symptoms does not necessarily mean that a person is in a clinically depressed state. We all experience life events and challenges that challenge our mental and emotional balance. Healthy grief and depression due to extreme events may last a few weeks or even longer. Normally, a person will eventually come out of the trauma. But some do not. These individuals seem to sink deeper into a swirl of seemingly ever darker symptoms. When these symptoms last longer than three weeks or a month, and the individual experiences a weight loss of more than five percent, and/or is fatigued, has a loss of hope, a sense of despair, and slow and/or distorted thinking, then this individual may be experiencing clinical depression.