Question

What is the difference between sadness and depression? How to know whether one is undergoing sadness or depression?

Answer 1

Sadness is a normal human emotion. We’ve all experienced it and we all will again. Sadness is usually triggered by a difficult, hurtful, challenging, or disappointing event, experience, or situation. In other words, we tend to feel sad about something. This also means that when that something changes, when our emotional hurt fades, when we’ve adjusted or gotten over the loss or disappointment, our sadness remits.

Depression is an abnormal emotional state, a mental illness that affects our thinking, emotions, perceptions, and behaviors in pervasive and chronic ways. When we’re depressed we feel sad about everything. Depression does not necessarily require a difficult event or situation, a loss, or a change of circumstance as a trigger. In fact, it often occurs in the absence of any such triggers. People’s lives on paper might be totally fine—they would even admit this is true—and yet they still feel horrible.

Answer 2

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$\textbf{Sadness}$ is a state of mind or say an emotional pain associated with, or characterized by, feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief, helplessness, disappointment and sorrow. 

!!Whereas on the other hand!!

$\textbf{Depression}$ is ...say a big sadness or a mood disorder characterized by low mood, a feeling of sadness, and a general loss of interest in things or a feeling of unhappiness that lasts for a long time. 

To know so!!

The depressed one gets visible from a long distance n u won't find it difficult to differentiate....it's just remember the time ....sadness for a long time is depression!!!...

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