People who are bipolar experience similar disabling depression during their depressive phases. What people see with illnesses or injuries is a runny nose, blood, expressions of acute physical pain, or an x-ray of what hurts. For most people, depression is temporary and passes naturally or once the person has expressed the feelings and resolved the thoughts causing the depression. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. This can be confusing to both the depressed person and to other people. Often, between episodes, people return to a functional, happy state. Major depressive disorder is the medical term for repeated episodes of a very intense, deep depression that is disabling and enormously painful. It can be totally debilitating and sometimes even fatal.
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They may have periods of feeling good, periods of feeling less bad, and periods of feeling horrible—for these people, the depression never goes away permanently. Atypical depression is also characterized by feeling emotionally paralyzed, physically leaden—barely able to move or engage in any activity, and often overeating, oversleeping, and experiencing sensitivity to rejection. These are behaviors we associate with personality and moral character—we think these are choices people are making, not an illness that has taken over their personality. But there is a small percentage of people who can talk about their issues, express their feelings, take very good care of themselves emotionally, even take medication and have a great life, and still be depressed throughout their lives. Sometimes people can also have a milder depression, even between episodes of major depression. People with chronic, severe depression are not indulging themselves, lazy, giving in, manipulating, or exaggerating their pain and dysfunction. It is difficult for the person who experiences it to describe because it is intensely painful, but not in any particular part of the body. If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices.
