Most people can experience sad/blue/depressed moods, so by using the word depressed, does that mean that when they're extra cheery and energetic for a few days they could be described as manic (in a very low-level sense?)
Maybe it's just semantics, but people throw the word depression around a lot for non clinical/major/bipolar instances of depression, but no one seems to do this for the other end.
So if happy/energetic/cheery/active doesn't equal (hypo)mania, should typical blue/sad moods not warrant the use of the word depression?
Hopefully that made sense
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