Here's my week. My 16yo family dog is being put down on Saturday. My mom fell (it wasn't anywhere near as bad as it could have been but it still scared me so much). Hearing 19 kids lost their lives in *another* fucking shooting. This has been a bad week for me. I feel stressed, overwhelmed, &amp; emotional. In other words, I feel like shit.

I just have so much trouble differentiating between sadness &amp; depression sometimes. I feel so sad right now &amp; I know with good reason. Logically, I would say I'm appropriately sad. That this sadness isn't a symptom, it's the result of external stressors. I'm putting extra effort into staying on top of my meds so I stay stable. But I have so many moments throughout my day where I am petrified that I'm sinking into a depression. I'm so afraid of losing the stability that I've worked so fucking hard to achieve that whenever I'm sad I obsess over "Am I becoming depressed? Am I destabilizing?" It's awful.

Anyone have a similar struggle?