6 Differences Between Depression and Sadness

Depression isn’t necessarily just feeling sad

Hugo Li
Live Your Life On Purpose
5 min readJul 30, 2020

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Has anyone ever opened up to you about feeling depressed, and you reply with, it’s okay, I feel sad sometimes too. You may feel like you’re helping them and being supportive. Although the effort to support is great, the response shows that you’re unclear off the difference between sadness and depression.

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Hugo Li
Live Your Life On Purpose

Climate Change Enthusiast. Melbourne, Australia. Student Writer. Sports Obsessed.