Can You Be Depressed Without Knowing It? 

Coming to see our depression for what it is can be tremendously helpful, even life-changing, in at least two ways. First, depression can affect all areas of our life, making us feel like everything is falling apart. Second, once we've named it, we know how to treat it. Several "talk therapies" have strong research evidence for alleviating depression.

Even the people we're closest to might not realize we're depressed, especially if we're good at "soldiering on." They may sense we're not at our best, but might attribute it to other factors.

Given the greater public awareness of depression, how is it possible to not know when it's present? 

We discuss several factors that can play a role:

1. Depression can look really different from person to person.

2. Depression tends to develop gradually.

3. In a related way, the various symptoms of depression often develop at different times.

4. There may be an obvious reason for feeling down.

5. There may be no obvious “reason” to be depressed.

6. Some symptoms might not seem like depression.

7. We don’t want to see ourselves as "depressed."

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