• Never smiling
• Not caring if the sun shines or the rivers flood
• Withdrawing from family and friends
• Not being able to cry or not being able to stop
• Feeling like an alien in this world
• Knowing you are a failure at life
• Looking at all those around you and feeling less than
• Not wanting to do anything anymore
• Having a sink full of dirty dishes
• Coming home to an unmade bed
• Hearing the negative in everything
• Knowing that things will ever change
• Having chronic, unexplained aches and pains

Depression is not “just” being sad.