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The Siggy Blog
Expert articles on medications, conditions, and the future of mental healthcare, from the team building it.
Apathy: When Not Caring Is a Symptom, Not a Character Flaw
Apathy is a real symptom with real causes, from depression and SSRI side effects to ADHD and brain conditions. Learn how to tell them apart and what helps.
Emotional Numbness: Depression, Trauma, or Medication?
Emotional numbness can come from depression, trauma, or antidepressant blunting. Learn how to tell them apart, what helps, and why not to quit meds abruptly.
Why Do I Feel Empty? Clinical Causes and What Helps
Feeling empty can come from depression, grief, dissociation, or chronic emptiness. Learn how to tell the causes apart, when it's urgent, and what helps.
Alexithymia: When You Cannot Name What You Feel, and What Helps
Alexithymia means trouble identifying and describing your feelings. Learn how common it is, how it links to autism, depression, and trauma, and what helps.
Depression vs. Sadness: How to Tell the Difference
Learn the clinical signs that separate depression from normal sadness, including the 9-symptom checklist doctors use and what anhedonia really means.
Why Do I Cry So Much? When Crying Is a Mental Health Signal
Frequent crying can be completely normal or a clinical sign of depression, anxiety, or emotional dysregulation. Here is how to tell the difference and what to do about it.
Why Am I Depressed? When There's No Obvious Reason, There's Usually a Quiet One
Feeling depressed with no clear reason? Learn the hidden drivers, from genes and stress to thyroid problems, sleep, and medications, and what to get checked.
High-Functioning Depression: Coping Well Isn't the Same as Being Okay
High-functioning depression hides behind a full calendar. Learn the signs people miss, how it relates to persistent depressive disorder, and what treatment helps.
Am I Depressed? How to Tell and What to Do Next
Not sure if it's depression or a rough patch? Learn the symptoms clinicians look for, the signs that don't look like sadness, and what to do next.
What Does Depression Feel Like? The Parts No One Mentions
Depression often feels like emptiness, exhaustion, fog, or irritability more than sadness. Learn how it shows up in mind and body, and when to get help.
Depression in Men: The Signs That Don't Look Like Sadness
Depression in men often shows up as anger, drinking, overwork, or risk-taking instead of sadness. Learn the signs, why screening misses them, and what helps.
What Is Depression? Symptoms, Causes, and Why Help Takes So Long
Depression is a common, treatable medical condition. Learn the symptoms, types, and causes, how it's treated, and why staying with treatment matters.
Major Depressive Disorder: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and the Weeks That Shape Treatment
What major depressive disorder is, how clinicians diagnose it, which treatments have the strongest evidence, and why the first few months of care matter so much.