Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20161101234856/@comment-4010415-20161102173711

Alhazad2003 wrote: Yang is not thinking clearly because she has clinical depression. Just wanted to point out that clinical depression is a depression disorder, where a person's depression is caused by an imbalance of chemicals in their brain, rather than by their environment. Yang has regular depression that was caused by external factors - the events that happened to her and her friends.

The difference is: With a depression disorder, no amount of support and "You just have to get back on your feet, go exercise, talk to people, have fun!" will help because it's a chemical problem and requires medication. The chemical production in Yang's brain is fine. She's just having a hard time coping with what has happened and needs support and help figuring out how to cope with it and get back on her feet.