How many of you have experienced depression in your life?

[Twisterdog]

I got a seven on the quiz.

I'm a pretty happy person.


However, if I would have taken that quiz as a teenager, I'm positive my results would have been sky-high some days. The teen years are SO HARD, even for the most well-adjusted kid. I am a bit concerned that all the teens on here are taking this quiz, thinking, "Oh, man. I'm depressed. There's something seriously wrong with me!" when maybe it's just normal teenage/hormonal roller-coaster stuff.

And, another thing I'd like to add (and I hope it doesn't offend anyone!!!) .... when I was a teenager, no one would have even dreamed of saying they were "depressed". It just never occurred to us. It wasn't a popular, accepted thing ... the subject of talk-shows and magazine articles. "Depressed" might be what your old auntie was, but you didn't talk about it. The climate was not such in this country that it was acceptable and/or trendy to have an ailment like depression. Which was bad, if you were truly, clinically depressed - you probably didn't know it, didn't know how to get help, and were ashamed of it. However, I have to agree with others that said, the percentages on this poll seem a little "off". I honestly don't believe that less than 20% percent of the population has not been depressed! I think "depression" is becoming a catch-all, casual, Jenny Jones-ish phrase, which belittles the truly, clinically depressed. Kind of a sad statement on the climate of our world today.