Emo / Depression

My problem with Alice's theory is that I've found, in dealing with clinical depression myself, is the motivation to keep one's self busy. It's just not there.

But it's hard to tell where to draw the line between someone being clinically depressed or in being "emo," which I would define as being very sad for somewhat shallow reasons. For example, a friend of mine (we're in high school, mind you) works at Hot Topic, wears all black and has made dozens of angry/woe-is-me livejournal posts about how girls won't go out with him, about how unfairly he's judged for his appearance, all the typical highschool shit.

Conversely, I don't talk to anyone about my problems. I'm not sad about not having a girlfriend - I'm pretty ugly and a lousy talker. I think about death a lot and try to leave the house as little as possible.

My whiny friend's mom has cancer, though, so I TRY not to judge people too harshly. As stupid or annoying as someone may look for the few minutes a day I see them, you never know what else is going on. In that regard, I do think it's unfair to label people "emo," but the word depression is thrown around so freely that I can't blame people for wanting to make a distinction.

Jam it back in, in the dark.