Is Depression Sadness or The Fight Against It? This is a question posed by one of my favorite alternative gurus, Dr. Kelly Brogan.  She published an article addressing this a while ago and discussed our general resistance to and reticence to experience and process sadness.  She wrote in part:   “Through this process of rebranding sadness as necessary, we may even learn that what we are calling depression has less to do with felt sadness than with the persistent resistance against it. Sadness, sorrow, grief, and pain are kinetic and dynamic. They rise and release. They move. It is the fight against these forces, the conditioned fear of them, and the effort to ignore the banging…