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Compare and contrast 'sadness' and 'clinical depression'

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Sadness versus clinical depression is examined.

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Sadness and Clinical depression both make a person feel down and sometimes helpless. However, this is an emotional response and this is where the similarities end.

Sadness is a reflective feeling based on something that happened in a life circumstance. It is emotionally painful but does not move into the real of physical pain. In effect, sadness is a logical feeling based on something that has happened in a person's life. Since it's logical, sadness ...

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