[Letiel]

My therapist described depression as the common cold of mental diseases. Everyone gets it but normally only for a couple days at a time. People with depression as we see it, with the imbalance need to be treated. These depressive episodes do come and go but for some people it lasts longer than others. Since there's no way to cure it, you just fight the symptoms with meds until the depression goes away.

I mean, I have friends with depressive episodes of roughly three weeks before they're fine. I've been in a depressive episode for 7 years. So it's very different between people.

Like Coda is saying in an episode you're going to be sad no matter what however, in my own experience I find that I don't breakdown without a trigger, an external event. I still am sad and hurt without the trigger but if I do come across one the whole world seems to end.