Have you ever wondered how it feels to feel like you are carrying a lot of weight on yourself, and you can’t shake off that weight no matter what you do? This goes the same with people who are suffering from depression, there is a constant weight of feeling of hopelessness, helplessness, and worthlessness, that the world they are living in is not their own. The people around them don’t feel similar, or being with oneself starts to feel suffocating or intolerable.We have usually seen that depression seems like a state in which the protagonist is lying on a bed and does nothing apart from crying. But what about the functional aspect of depression, where the individual seems to have bouts of happiness too, or is doing their work efficiently, is punctual, isn’t crying, isn’t sad but there is still a part where the symptoms might show that the individual is going through depression. Like eating their favourite meal in a larger quantity or just skipping it. Or just not being able to do the activity that you really like doing. Or sleeping excessively, or being sleep-deprived. Or being extremely silent. Or being on toes in terms of getting stressed. Or has been constantly criticising themselves throughout the day. And no matter how pleasant their life is, they feel that they are not doing good enough. It is really difficult to find or even recognize the depression which gets masked under a layer like this. And sometimes I wonder how do people who usually have 2–3 sad days in a row start to identify themselves as being in depression, while there are people who don’t even know how it feels, or are going through it without realizing? It is really easy for us individuals to judge each other on the basis of our external perspective of them. But it is equally important to pause, reflect, and see the people around us or our own self, and to ask if we are going through this ???