Quote Originally Posted by !Luck View Post
Does anyone who claim to be depressed and still functions, not really depressed?
As others have said, depression isn't an on/off switch, and "functions" isn't black and white either. You can have 'mild' depression that negatively affects some areas of your life in certain ways, but you can still hold down a job. Then you can have severe depression that affects you so detrimentally that you can't maintain a job, have a social life, be tolerable to your family etc. Then there's every shade of gray in between.

Generally for something to be considered a pathology, it has to inhibit your ability to function normally in the world (job, social life, relationships, ... ). Of course there are people who loosely throw around the term depression, just like it's popular to throw around the term "OCD" to describe finicky behaviour, but that doesn't mean that real depression and real OCD don't exist.