Have you ever entered a mood where you thought you were a bad person, that all your past achievements did not count and were bad? Did you find it difficult to perform many tasks that you could do normally, found it hard to concentrate, was flooded with bad thoughts, and had problems going to sleep? If so, you may have been clinically depressed, or clinically anxious. In addition, people who suffer from Mania-Depressia also known as "Bipolar disorder" (like me) also tend to get into opposite states called hypomanias or Manias. While "hypomania" contains the word "mania", they are actually below mania, and the person is still in control to some extent, and, with some awareness, may realise he's in a bad mental condition.

Clinical depressions are not everyday "I am depressed." or "being down" depressions, but rather a feeling that one is bad, and being consumed with guilt, with a tendency of being less communicative and less able to perform one's responsibilities.

(or "Bipolar disorder") because I had a single "Great Mania" and a few shorter manias, because I have frequent Hypomanias, and because I have been clinically depressed or clinically anxious at the time. So I'm writing about this from experience.