[Onward2wards]

"Is it the blues, or is it depression?" ads and awareness campaigns ask.
I think sometimes you get depression from having HAD the blues (understandable response to stressful or discouraging moments) for way too long.
IMO, what REALLY fuels my depression is whatever PREVENTS me from taking action on fixing what gives me the blues!! This makes total sense to me. Whatever that is, it isn't fully depression either, it's more nuanced than that. I choose to label it "learned fears". Those little twerps spoil everything.

[IrisBloom]

Agreed.

[little turtle]

Originally Posted by Onward2wards

"Is it the blues, or is it depression?" ads and awareness campaigns ask.
I think sometimes you get depression from having HAD the blues (understandable response to stressful or discouraging moments) for way too long.
IMO, what REALLY fuels my depression is whatever PREVENTS me from taking action on fixing what gives me the blues!! This makes total sense to me. Whatever that is, it isn't fully depression either, it's more nuanced than that. I choose to label it "learned fears". Those little twerps spoil everything.

this is interesting...very important....it brings up what to do now...what action to take....what action is possible right now...I am so full of it I cant stand it sometimes

[Fuzzybear]

[possum220]

Try not to worry about what the twerps say. Everybody will have some kind of take on what ails you. Labels are just that.... labels.

Anything that helps you to bring wellness and peace into your life is a good thing.

[adam_k]

I find that life events even small can send me into a depressed episode. Like striking a match. Feeling sad is a part of life. Things happen, but I think depression is the inability to come out of it.

[dexter]

I experience the same thing... Starts as a triggered mood but lasts way too long. For me it is like something flips the "blues" switch but my brain is unable to flip it back to off after an appropriate period of time.

But for me when "The Blues" turns into depression, the symptoms differ/change. My depression is marked by extreme prolonged isolation that I can not get out of. If I am forced around people I can not talk to them. The sadness changes quickly to numbness. I am no longer sad, instead I lack the ability to feel any emotion, and along with that comes the extreme anhedonia, and marked frustration that I can no longer enjoy things that I know used to bring me joy.

I've been trying to educate friends by saying "I'm no depressed, I'm suffering from depression, and although the name sounds misleadingly similar, it is NOT the same thing."