Are you dealing with sadness, melancholy, or apathy? When is it … Mihai Bran, psychiatrist, explains more clearly what depression is.
The difference between depression and a simple state of sadness is that depression does not have a specific reason.
We can be sad for several days, but to make a diagnosis of … sadness has to persist day after day for more than two weeks.
And to understand what depression is, we must know that patients also have eating/appetite disorders and insomnia.