Depression or Sadness

          Being a Psychology Graduate, I tend to use Psychological terms in my daily life. Even if it a simple conversation with friends or an intellectual discussion, Psychological terms have played a big part on it. One of  the terms I use often is depressed, but I sometimes think if I'm giving justice to the term or It is just sadness.

          I have asked my Best friend, on how do we distinguish between depression and sadness. Since we've been using it every time we will fail in an exam or our day didn't turn out from what we have expected. So how can we say that we are depress if the reason is something that had happened on that day. I even asked her if how a normal person without any background with Psychology could tell if s/he feels sadness or is it depression already.

         But  how do we distinguish those two things? Sadness is something that we feel for a day or two because of an unfortunate event or a bad experience, but Depression it occurs for a period of time, it could take months with the feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, worthlessness and even there will be times that you want to die or end up your life. It is a scary experience and it has a deeper reason why do we feel those kind of things.

          I have read a Tumblr post about depression that make me write this. And I think it make sense, since I've been abusing the word depression every time I felt bad or things doesn't go my way. But still I want to help those people, suffering from depression, to help them and tell them that it will be fine and there still people around them that will understand them. Even if I know it will be a hard thing for me, but I want to help them.