it's relative (a fren's favourite phrase =)

Funny how

we leave the psychiatrist's room feeling even more depressed than when we entered. (I just noticed how the word 'psychiatrist' has my name in it)
(-_-)

Perhaps because it confirms the diagnosis that 'you are depressed and need help', a label that you found yourself suddenly wearing, although there had been no depressing circumstances in between entering and leaving the room to alter your mood.

Suddenly, you're different. Depressed, they say, showing symtoms, they say, abnormal, different from the usual, normal mode people are commonly in.

They're wrong, though. What is 'normal', 'usual', 'common'?
What is the common man, or normality of life?
This is it: a struggle, hopes for, dashed disappointments, raised expectations. We all get depressed one time or another. Let me change the 'or' to 'and'.

Of course, the clinical definition of depression is a prolonged state you find yourself in and have difficulty finding enjoyment in what you had previously found a solace. However, clinical research has also found depression to be common, present in many, if not a majority.

So there is no need to be depressed because you've been diagnosed depressed. You are not alone.

In fact, you will never be alone.
Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest.

(because life is full of paradoxes):
Continue to struggle, wherever you are, to find rest. To find "Me".

Our hearts are restless Oh Lord, until they rest in You.
(St. Augustine)