Sadness Vs. Depression Part 2

David Allen Brown 

 "Lovenotes from Above: Who am I? Who I am"

 Sadness Vs. Depression.

The sad person feels bad, but continues to cope with living. A person with clinical depression may feel overwhelmed and hopeless. Sad people can be “talked into good moods again”. Depressed people only get frustrated, agitated and maybe even more depressed when a friend comes by to talk them out of their ”sad mood”. 

    Depressed people get depressed and stay depressed for a minimum of two weeks, usually longer. They lose or gain weight to the tume of at least 5% either way over a month’s time and their “mood” is so repressed that it alters their lives. Sad people get bummed for a while and may even suffer extremes like not going to work for a few days,etc. but they bounce back relatively quickly.    Depression means you get to a point where you can’t function and your life changes for the worse because your behavior changes so drastically. You simply don’t care about anything...for a while any way. 

   The worst depression  you can have is referred to as “Major Depressive Disorder” and it is characterized by  being depressed all day, every day for up to two months or more. The person loses interest in just about everything that he or she once enjoyed or found interest in.

        After my breakup happened last year just prior to the Holidays I decided that I was not going to be beaten down again but that I was going to succeed in a way that I had never thought possible. I needed to stay busy I thought and focus all of my energies on my work and succeed like never before.

   Immediately I began working on my business but something I decided to do this time was take some time away from dating and relationships and spend some time getting closer to God. I had surmized that things had gone the way they were supposed to and I was going to make the best of things. I’m not the kind of guy to let anything defeat me and I wasn’t going to start now.

   For the next 3 months or so I worked but I did end up meeting someone when I was selling some leather sofas that I really didn’t need any more. We’ll call her Debbie and she was going through a breakup too. I have to admit that because she was 34 and I was 47  and she was very pretty and intelligent and nice…well. You can figure this one out for yourself. I needed someone who was fun and positive and Debbie was just exactly what I needed at the time.

    We were two ships that met on a Sunday afternoon and because we had a unique chemistry a friendship developed that I had missed over the last 3 years. Even though we did develop a real relationship quickly after we met, our friendship became our root connection and was extremely important to us both.

     Around mid February  I was awakened one night by a strong call on my heart and I  began to do something I had always wanted to do. I began to write. In fact I started that very night and it turned into an every night thing. Over the next 8 months I wrote 3 books, continued to see Debbie and made some more friends. When I finished the books and decided around August to take a breather that’s when it hit me...  Continued