Thats a sign of depression??? No wayyy never heard of that... obviously like a total shut down. I have heard of depression causing dirty houses though. When my dad died... ugh... my poor apartment suffered the price.
It's actually one of the most prominent signs of depression, although it's easily overlooked.
See, part of the problem is that what it clinically is, and what society thinks that it is, are two different things.
Society seems to think that it just beings being sad, and I wish to Hell it was that simple, but it's not.
What it actually is, is when you lack emotional processing for information of the external world around you.
In that example: You could be genuinely enjoying yourself, but without any external emotional connection to the world around you whatsoever.
Say you're at the beach on a nice Spring day. You and the man have a little bit of extra money to enjoy yourself, so you get refreshments, the weather is nice, it's not too crowded, but not destitute either, and everything is going fine. You love your man, and you know that you love your man, but you don't FEEL like you love your man in that moment.....that's the clinical definition of depression verbatum.
Another example being:
Ya'll call it a night in, order some food for delivery and watch a series together that you *only* watch together, because it's your special thing and you're trying to rekindle the romance. You even comment on plot twists, and have an interactive experience of experiencing this film or series together, and you know that you love your man...but you don't FEEL like you love your man in that moment.
Depression is when activities that you normally either enjoy doing, or don't struggle with doing, suddenly become joyless, and become a struggle to maintain.
If you find no joy in life because you're struggling with depression, the first thing to usually go is hygiene. It's subconscious, most people don't even realize it, or in the event that they *do* realize it, it's so hard to make yourself try to do something that you used to care about but suddenly don't anymore because you're depressed.
When you are depressed, your emotional spectrum is depressed, that is, flattened, boxed, or confided. That's why it's called Depression in the first place, it's the flattening of feeling, or a woolen numbness usually characteristically combined with some hazy spiciness of some sorts, as if the person isn't really there entirely.
he has slight learning difficulties though
