True Depression

[mzzsarah12]

Just thought of a question while scrolling thru the threads. How can you tell if someone is depressed or just feeling sorry for themselves? Now I'm not saying depression is not real and it's impossible for people to be depressed but how do you tell the difference. How could you tell if they were just "pretending" or seriously going thru something.

[bessie1111]

When they stop functioning...they are seriously depressed.

[sigmapi1501]

How could you tell if they were just "pretending" or seriously going thru something.

Does it matter.  It they are "pretending" then they must be at least a little depressed if they are faking being depressed. That's depressing.