I’m often asked, “Am I depressed or just lazy?”
It’s a legitimate question, in that many people who suffer from clinical depression will initially feel like they’re just being lazy, not wanting to get off the couch or out of bed. On the surface, the two — laziness and depression — appear to share some similarities.
But dig just a little deeper and you can quickly determine whether you’re depressed or just being lazy.
Depression is a serious, debilitating mental illness that impacts millions of Americans each year. It not only causes distress for the person suffering from it, but also for their loved ones and friends. For employers, it results in millions of hours, and billions of dollars, of lost productivity.
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Hazel’s comment:
I take my antidepressants regularly and they keep me on an acceptable level of emotional activity, no highs and no lows just flat most of the time. I know when I am feeling lazy and it's completely different. As John Grohol says: “that is a case of the blahs”. It took me quite a while to learn.
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