[Alan McDougall (OP)]

Paul,

100%! Are you sure?

Yes!! I have never met even one person who has not been sad or had a down moods at times.

Everyone has mild cycles of happiness and sadness during their lives,, I am of course not referring to repeated clinical depression that requires lifelong treatment and medication

Alan

[paul.fr]

Paul,

100%! Are you sure?

Yes!! I have never met even one person who has not been sad or had a down moods at times.

But being sad is not the same as having depression, is it?

[Alan McDougall (OP)]

Paul

Maybe but everyone has mood swings, and I feel people who are not really ill are put on psychiatric drugs.

My sister as an example went to her doctor for a problem unrelated to depression or bipolar disorder, and the doctor told her she might be bipolar which she decidedly was not

She is one of the most collected balanced person I have ever met

Alan