What is the difference between sadness and depression?

Being sad has a specific cause that you can link it to, or to have an off day. Sadness makes room for happiness when it is time. Depression can come out of nowhere, or be caused by something. But it does not allow for much happiness.

Symptoms of depression typically last 2+ weeks, and can inhibit a person's ability to function normally. Depression can have many symptoms such as change in appetite and fatigue. Sadness can even be considered to be a symptom of depression.

If you're sad you will get better faster and your thoughts won't be too bad. If you have depression, you might get suicidal or self-harming thoughts and you're always down in the dumps.

Sadness is just more of a "Oh no this happened today" short term disturbance that genreally has a cause and can either be solved or gotten over easily. Depression however is a much longer process and can have a number of causes or the may be no obvious causes at all. It tends to affect you on a much larger scale and drags you down as a person rather than just making you upset it often makes you learn to hate yourself or things about you as well as dwelling on a lot of situations.

Sadness is the feeling you get when something goes south in your life. On the other hand, depression is feeling sad when everything goes well in your life.

Sadness usually has a reason or cause. It tends to fade away as we move forward in life. Depression lasts longer and feels much scarier. Te voice of reason tends to leave and things along with people cease to matter. Waking up everyday becomes a burden and the hardest is trying to explain something you don't understand yourself. Sadness tends to be easier to explain as it usually has a root cause.

Sadness is a normal human emotion. We’ve all experienced it and we all will again. Sadness is usually triggered by a difficult, hurtful, challenging, or disappointing event, experience, or situation. In other words, we tend to feel sad about something. This also means that when that something changes, when our emotional hurt fades, when we’ve adjusted or gotten over the loss or disappointment, our sadness remits. Depression is an abnormal emotional state, a mental illness that affects our thinking, emotions, perceptions, and behaviors in pervasive and chronic ways. When we’re depressed we feel sad about everything. Depression does not necessarily require a difficult event or situation, a loss, or a change of circumstance as a trigger. In fact, it often occurs in the absence of any such triggers. People’s lives on paper might be totally fine—they would even admit this is true—and yet they still feel horrible. Depression colors all aspects of our lives, making everything less enjoyable, less interesting, less important, less lovable, and less worthwhile. Depression saps our energy, motivation, and ability to experience joy, pleasure, excitement, anticipation, satisfaction, connection, and meaning. All your thresholds tend to be lower. You’re more impatient, quicker to anger and get frustrated, quicker to break down, and it takes you longer to bounce back from everything.

Sadness goes away within a reasonable amount of time, depression is sadness x 100 and constantly there

I believe the difference between sadness and depression is ignorance. Sadness, in my opinion, is a somewhat temporary emotion. If a friend passes obviously I'm going to be sad. But, I understand this is a part of life. Eventually, I will move past this sadness. Depression, in my opinion, is a lack of understanding. You must understand why you feel the way you think you feel. Human minds are extraordinary. Our mind truly believes what we imagine. The level of positivity that can be achieved is awesome! You don't just wake up one day and suffer from depression. We believe what we continually tell ourselves.

In depression, you will feel tired a lot, you might have suicidal feelings and feel extremely lonely, you might cry a lot, too, this is how depression is, it happens with you everyday but sadness is not like depression, you just feel sad for a short period of time and it doesn't affect your daily life