Depression is an extremely serious and common mental health condition that has a negative impact on how you act, the way you think, and how you feel. Major depressive disorder or clinical depression is not just the occasional low mood or feeling down, and the main difference is a matter of severity.
Everyone experiences a low mood or sadness on occasion, but when general low mood or sadness is accompanied by certain other symptoms and persists for more than 2 weeks a diagnosis of depression may be appropriate. Fortunately, depression is a very treatable mental health condition