A "dispositional explanation" attributes your depressed moods and maladaptive behaviors to internal factors, like personality traits or personal characteristics. A "situational explanation" attributes ...

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 ...

Many people use “depression” as shorthand for feeling low, while others dismiss depression as “just sadness”. Here, we explain the difference using clinicians’ cues: Trigger, duration, functioning, ...

"Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is." —Atticus poetry "People who have never dealt with depression think it's just being sad or being in a bad mood. That's ...