So do you think you require a medical evaluation to say "I have depression" or you just realize that it's been so long that you feel the way you feel that you actually start to think that you have depression.

I'm 28, and I feel this empty space inside me, lack of passion and purpose, no romantic life, no true friends, and while I know that I'm loved by family (and I know this sounds bad but that's the way I feel) it's not enough.

I do sports, exercise, eat well, have a job that i kind of like, bake, laugh, etc. But that feeling of sadness, loneliness, emptiness doesn't go away.

So that's how I have been feeling since I was around 23 and it was around my 25th birthday that it down on me like in a movie, I just looked around me and felt the clarity, and I have been living with it since then.

So yeah the question is: Is this depression or just a looong feeling of emptiness and loneliness?