11/20/2025
Is this Grief or Depression? While both grief and depression can look and feel similar, especially in their early stages, there are important differences in their symptoms and trajectories.
Why is knowing the difference important?
🌻Appropriate Support: Grieving people benefit from empathy, patience, and a safe space to express their feelings. They may not require therapy unless their grief becomes complicated.
🌻Effective Help: Depression often requires professional intervention, including therapy, lifestyle changes, and sometimes medication. Mislabeling depression as simply “sadness” can delay much-needed help.
🌻Reducing Stigma: Recognizing depression as a medical condition reduces shame and encourages people to seek support, just as they would for a physical illness.
To read more read our full blog here https://pattymunoztherapy.com/blog/is-this-grief-of-depression-understanding-the-differeneces
Healing is possible, and help is available. We offer a free 15-minute consultation. Contact us here or call (909) 206-4613. We offer therapy in person and virtually throughout CA info@pattymunoztherapy.com. By understanding the differences, we can offer the right kind of support—whether that means sitting quietly in the presence of pain or encouraging someone to seek professional help. In the end, healing begins with compassion: for ourselves, and for each other.
