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Originally Posted by UKjovi
It does rub off on to you after 9 years of it  |
no - you develop your own circumstantial depression
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Originally Posted by Keeper
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Originally Posted by spunkywho
True depression is not contagious.  |
But you'll still get that gloomy feeling for a while until you manage to just shake it off, don't you think? |
Having a gloomy feeling and being "down" are different from clinical depression. Yes, being around a fun crowd will make you more happy and being around negative creeps will not make you particularly fun. But all those things are not true depression. They are just feelings - depression is a mental illness.
If I read depression, I think of clinical depression - not the feeling of sadness. Very very big difference, though people use the terms interchangably.
I do agree that being with a depressed person is usually not fun and as such people may feel sad as well.