Depression isn’t always about feeling bad, it can be emotional numbness or alexithymia (difficulty in experiencing, expressing, and describing emotional responses in words). It keeps overt depression away. Have you heard of reactive depression before? I hadn’t until recently. It’s in relation to external events or circumstances, a response to major stress such as a break-up, death of loved one, divorce, workplace harassment. It is not PTSD, which has more significant sympto