Depression
Everyone feels sad or low sometimes, and those feelings usually pass. Depression is different: it affects how a person feels, thinks, and handles daily life.
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What Is Depression?
Depression is a common and treatable medical illness — not a personal weakness or something you can simply "snap out of." It causes a low mood or a loss of interest in things you used to enjoy that lasts most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks, and it gets in the way of your daily life.
Depression is very common. More than 1 in 5 adults will have it at some point in their lives. The good news: it can be treated, and most people get better.