Given how we use the words “sadness” and “depression” in everyday life and in pop culture, it can be hard to differentiate one from the other. Even though they might seem similar, they’re not. Experts ...

Sadness is different from depression, but it can be hard to tell them apart when you are in the middle of a very sad time in your life. What a lot of people forget is that sadness, even deep sadness ...

Feeling sad from time to time is normal. We can feel sad for various reasons, such as learning our favorite coworker is leaving for another job, fighting with a loved one, or not achieving a personal ...

Amit Verma (name changed on request) walked into a psychologist’s clinic convinced he was depressed. It had been months since his mother fell ill, months since a relationship ended without drama but ...

How can someone who lived to make us laugh kill themselves? In the less than 24 hours since we were told about the death of Robin Williams, conversation has swirled not just around his many, many ...

There are exceptions to every rule. But science shows men and women tend to respond to depression differently. Women may express more stress and sadness, while men might show irritability and ...

“Seasonal depression” is a phrase uttered through chattering teeth as the mercury drops every year. But as the term becomes a ...

We often hear the term “depression” thrown around lightly in conversation. We may come home from a stressful day at work and tell our family at dinner that we are depressed. We may have received some ...