It's Not A Sentence, It's Just A Word.

Depress is a verb meaning, according to Dictionary.com's second definition "to lower in force, vigor, activity, etc.; weaken; make dull."  It's my favorite definition.  A definition I don't care for is about "to make sad or gloomy; lower in spirits; deject; dispirit."  This was the first definition in Dictionary.com.  I like Wiktionary.com's first definition--"To press down."  Depressing things just lowers their force, it doesn't extinguish anythng.

Depression gets a real negative vibration going whenever it's mentioned, almost as if it is a sentence to some form of imprisonment.  It doesn't have to be.  That's what people who don't know about "depressing" things call it.  

Often we are instructed to depress a button or a switch somehow to make something we want happen.  "Depress the switch to ..."  Well, you know...depressing things is a necessary step.  So, why does everybody get depressed about "depressing" something?  Who knows?

There are a few things that depress you--and me--hunger, unnecessary pain, early or premature death, lingering disease, broken hearts, and more.  They are usually things that pass by.  But there are things you can depress without depressing everyone else.  Depressing a button to lower the temperature, or the air pressure, or the force applied to something.   Sometimes what's depressing is a matter of brain chemistry, producing a lowered amount of force or activity.  

Finally, people can "depress" whatever button they need to in order to get treatment for that lowered force they are experiencing.  It's nothing to get depressed about.  Feeling that lowered force, I'm getting treatment.  It's not a sentence, it's just a word.