Am I Depressed - Or Am I Just Unhappy?
Depression is a term that is being bandied around far too much, and depression is probably one of the most misdiagnosed and misunderstood emotional problems of them all. Let's find out if you are really depressed - or if you are just unhappy.
What is the difference between someone being depressed, and someone "just" being unhappy?
Find Out If You Are Really Suffering From Depression -Or "Just" Unhappiness ...Let's stop for a moment and consider what that means, to be unhappy.
Unhappiness can be very, very serious.
You could be held by radical extremists as a hostage in dreadful conditions, fearing for your life every second of every day.
You could be dying of a slow and painful illness.
You could be trapped in a horrendously abusive relationship full of mental and physical torture, day in, day out, with no escape.
You could be in constant pain, or not getting enough food or sleep so your body is slowly shutting down and your mental faculties are being eroded.
You could be under constant super-high stress because you simply work too hard, do too much or have too many responsibilities you find hard to cope with.
You could be burdened down by emotional stress - too much fear, too much anger, too much sadness, or too much grief to cope with on a daily basis.
ANY person who experiences any of these things is going to be - UNHAPPY.The symptoms of this unhappiness look like the symptoms of depression - lack of appetite, lack of energy, sleep disturbances, mood swings, inability to see the bright side, inability to concentrate, thinking is clouded and woolly, no sex drive, no will to live, in other words.
And can you blame a person from the list above for feeling like that?
Of course not.
Likewise, a person who is sick or in pain, as soon as they get better or the pain stops, they start to pick up and become happier.
This also holds the same way for people who were too stressed, too emotionally drained or too hungry, or too sleep deprived - all of that STOPS once you remove the person from the toxic situation, and they're not showing any symptoms of "depression" any longer.
Before you rush to make that decision that "my environment is great and I have no reason to be unhappy so that must mean I'm suffering from depression," take a moment to really think about it.
The reason depression is so often misdiagnosed is because people take a lot for granted and don't question it enough.
For example, a lot of people are involved in long term, very destructive relationships that are causing their unhappiness directly, but they think that that is normal, or that that is something they can't do anything about, or that they've been suffering in this relationship for 20 years already and don't understand that it has worn them down to this crisis point over a long time.
Some people judge their lives by the fact that they live "in a nice house, have nice things and a nice family" but don't look under the surface where there may be serious emotional problems causing them to be truly unhappy, no matter what it looks like over the top to the neighbors.
Other people love their work and don't understand that it causes too much stress and is wearing down their body, mind and spirit; they don't think to look there for the real reason for their unhappiness.
Some people simply have the wrong idea of what can be reasonably expected from a human being in the way of how much suffering they can take and still run around like Superman and Superwoman with a perpetual smile on their faces, and mistreat themselves as a result into serious physical, mental and emotional unhappiness.
Silvia Hartmann,
What is the difference between someone being depressed, and someone "just" being unhappy?
Find Out If You Are Really Suffering From Depression -Or "Just" Unhappiness ...Let's stop for a moment and consider what that means, to be unhappy.
Unhappiness can be very, very serious.
You could be held by radical extremists as a hostage in dreadful conditions, fearing for your life every second of every day.
You could be dying of a slow and painful illness.
You could be trapped in a horrendously abusive relationship full of mental and physical torture, day in, day out, with no escape.
You could be in constant pain, or not getting enough food or sleep so your body is slowly shutting down and your mental faculties are being eroded.
You could be under constant super-high stress because you simply work too hard, do too much or have too many responsibilities you find hard to cope with.
You could be burdened down by emotional stress - too much fear, too much anger, too much sadness, or too much grief to cope with on a daily basis.
ANY person who experiences any of these things is going to be - UNHAPPY.The symptoms of this unhappiness look like the symptoms of depression - lack of appetite, lack of energy, sleep disturbances, mood swings, inability to see the bright side, inability to concentrate, thinking is clouded and woolly, no sex drive, no will to live, in other words.
And can you blame a person from the list above for feeling like that?
Of course not.
- All these symptoms of "depression" are nothing more and nothing less than NATURAL, NORMAL, OBVIOUS human responses to BEING IN BAD SITUATIONS.
- The remedy for your unhappiness is to change the situation you're in.
Likewise, a person who is sick or in pain, as soon as they get better or the pain stops, they start to pick up and become happier.
This also holds the same way for people who were too stressed, too emotionally drained or too hungry, or too sleep deprived - all of that STOPS once you remove the person from the toxic situation, and they're not showing any symptoms of "depression" any longer.
- Depression is a condition that is happening IN SPITE OF THE SITUATION you are in.
- In a nutshell you could say that if the symptoms of depression simply disappear when you take the person out of the environment they are in, and put them in a different environment, then we're talking about unhappiness, and NOT about depression.
Before you rush to make that decision that "my environment is great and I have no reason to be unhappy so that must mean I'm suffering from depression," take a moment to really think about it.
The reason depression is so often misdiagnosed is because people take a lot for granted and don't question it enough.
For example, a lot of people are involved in long term, very destructive relationships that are causing their unhappiness directly, but they think that that is normal, or that that is something they can't do anything about, or that they've been suffering in this relationship for 20 years already and don't understand that it has worn them down to this crisis point over a long time.
Some people judge their lives by the fact that they live "in a nice house, have nice things and a nice family" but don't look under the surface where there may be serious emotional problems causing them to be truly unhappy, no matter what it looks like over the top to the neighbors.
Other people love their work and don't understand that it causes too much stress and is wearing down their body, mind and spirit; they don't think to look there for the real reason for their unhappiness.
Some people simply have the wrong idea of what can be reasonably expected from a human being in the way of how much suffering they can take and still run around like Superman and Superwoman with a perpetual smile on their faces, and mistreat themselves as a result into serious physical, mental and emotional unhappiness.
- So before you decide that you need to take up that mantle of depression, please be really sure that you are not "just" painfully and desperately unhappy instead.
Silvia Hartmann,
