Being sad is like being depressed, but the causes are different. That’s what’s important.

And if you were diagnosed by a “nurse” as clinically depressed I would say you are probably suffering from situational depression, or sadness in other words. And Nurses shouldn’t be Diagnosing mood disorders.

That’s my point, depression is a mood disorder, sadness is not. Neither is situational depression. You don’t treat situational depression with anti-depressants.

There you go, doing it again, ramming your definition of words down someone else’s throat.

And you know nothing about me, or the nurse, so quit making glib judgements.

I’m not blaming them down your throat I’m having a discussion about them. Did you ever think for a moment that you were wrong? I’ve been going to therapists for 20 years, I’ve suffered mental illness for 45 years.

If you met you had a psychiatric nurse practitioner you should say that, because a nurse is an overly broad generalization.

Your original comment was “That is sadness, not depression.”. Saying they are not depressed is a diagnosis, which you have no right to do, probably no training to do, and would be wildly unprofessional to do if you were a specialist. For all we know they could have been diagnosed with depression and treated - you lack context to be able to say either way - so take them at their word. You have experience as a sufferer but that gives you no right to make sweeping statements about anyone’s mental health - I am sure you would dislike anyone jumping to conclusions about you based on this conversation?

Then you said “COVID lockdown made you sad, not depressed”, which appears to be your own imagination, since they didn’t even mention COVID.

I responded strongly to your original comment, because I feel it breaks multiple guidelines of this site, and I feel a community should moderate itself for the most part.

Perhaps you are 100% correct, but your delivery needs to be a lot more caring and considerate, especially when somebody is revealing something so intimate and personal.

> I’m having a discussion about them

Your original comment was not a discussion: you wrote as though your opinions are facts, which came across to me as though you were denying their own reality. You then proceeded to do the same thing to me, which I am reacting poorly to.

Edit: also, the original comment implied the commenter has high social, emotional and mental capabilities. Stressful personal life and still teaching children at inner-city schools: passing that proof implies high ability. Teachers absorb a massive amount of practical psychology by caring about their students, and interacting with problem students all the time.

I was diagnosed by both my PCP MD and a psychiatrist. Do you think you're more qualified than they are? Have you clinically interviewed me?