🧘🏽 Emotional Regulation & Coping Skills *coming soon *coming soon
Course overview
Lesson Overview

13.2 – The Difference Between Sadness and Depression: Sadness is a natural emotion that comes and goes when something hurts us, but depression is when that sadness turns into a lasting storm that doesn’t fade easily. Sadness still allows you to laugh, eat, and rest, but depression makes even those simple things feel like climbing a mountain. Sadness has a reason that fades with time, while depression often stays even when life seems okay on the outside. With sadness, comfort from others can bring relief, but depression can make comfort feel distant or empty. Sadness lets you cry and move forward, but depression can numb emotions altogether, leaving a hollow space inside. People with depression may feel disconnected from themselves and lose interest in everything they used to enjoy. Understanding this difference helps people realize that depression isn’t a mood to “snap out of.” It’s a condition that deserves compassion and treatment. Sadness teaches emotional growth, but depression calls for healing, patience, and often medical or therapeutic help. Seeing the two clearly allows us to treat each with the care it needs—comfort for sadness and structured recovery for depression.

About this course

Strategies to manage emotions effectively, build resilience, and respond to challenges with balance and control.

This course includes:
  • Guided mindfulness and emotional regulation exercises
  • Coping strategy planners and reflection tools
  • Real-world scenarios to practice emotional management skills

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