Fortunately, at the moment she's not in an episode.

幸运的是她现在没有在抑郁中
But she can speak very articulately about

但她可以很清晰的描述
what it's like to be in the midst of an episode

抑郁周期中的感觉
and some of the significant symptoms that she had.

以及她有过的一些显著的症状
Okay There are couple of things she talks about that I just want to comment on.

我想简评一下她提到的一些事情
One is this differentiation between everyday sad mood

日常的悲伤心情以及
and the kind of depressions we all experience and the kind of debilitating,

我们都体验过的抑郁同她体验过的令人衰弱的巨大的抑郁
overwhelming depression that she experiences.

两者之间的区别
And it is true that there is this continuum from

沮丧确实有连续性的
getting bummed out because you didn't do well on a test

从考试没考好
or because you broke up with a boyfriend or girlfriend

或者你和男朋友女朋友分手之类
or something like this and being completely not functional,

或沮丧的完全不能正常生活