Depressed? Is It a Mental Illness?

The word depression itself really doesn't do justice to the variety of this experience. Even when we talk about this as mental illness, we're missing the point a right? Right? It's almost, and this is a real argument i have with my field, the field of psychology, it almost becomes a way of dismissing it. Ah, i i see it much, much more as an am oh, you know, a kind of a minor key, a chord that that was a constant accompaniment to one's life. And that's what it was.