I'm no expert, or anything. But for the most part unhappy people know that there is hope, and that's why they're willing to discuss their unhappiness.
With depressed people, they don't think its every going to change, they have a deep sense of inevitability, and that they are to blame for it, and nobody is ever going to help them.
On top of that and for lack of better words, a unhappy person will collect reasons why they're unhappy. A depressed person will stack reasons why their depressed until that Stack dominates their lives.
I think of it as a well and your stuck on the bottom and the well keeps getting deeper, and there's no one to help you out of it, and you don't want to bother people by yelling.
That's probably depression.
with unhappiness, you can reach the lip of the well and crawl out and there are people standing there asking you what they can do to help you crawl out.
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