Depression..is it?

Can one of you crabs explain - maybe some sort of detail - how Cancers deal with depression. Or maybe a sign that I might be able to see in one of my Cancer friends?

Everyone knocks it off as that Cancer is a loser and is lazy..

What if it's depression? Which, someone could see that easily from the outside.

But what is the thought process?

Is it the whole shell thing? Where you withdrawal for long period of time?

It's like this article says:

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/depressed-crab-stays-buried-under-sand-until-2-pm-55629

If I'm sad, I like to sulk. I like to cry and get it out. When I'm depressed, I don't eat. I don't have a lot of ambition to do things I'd normally do besides work. Like clean or do laundry.

I'd drink a lot too

Hmm, it's doubtful that all crabs handle depression the same way. It just really depends on the level of depression, if therapeutic techniques have been learned, medication, etc.

I think with this placement in particular being negative and emotional, crabs might be more prone to depression, but also might be the most innately equipped to battle it. Personally, as I've always battled depression with time and support from family. But I think the biggest way I have found out how to battle depression is by finding something, anything to look forward to. This is a light beacon that guides someone in a depressive state out of the darkness.

A clinically depressed individual is going to have a steady barrage of anxiety attacks. As time passes, the duration of these attacks lessens a good deal, while the time spent in a positive mood increases. Ways I have found to decrease the time it takes to get to this point is through positive influence. This is obtained through many methods (working out, solving a puzzle, volunteer work, gaining an achievement in something, eating/sleeping right, etc.) These kind of things get those all-so important feel-good hormones flowing in the brain, and this along with those light beacons will eventually pull a depressed crab out of their funk.

Tried and true.

One other tip: Music. It doesn't matter if it's the dark stuff. Even if the music can only even stop the descent into darkness, it worth it to seek it out and listen to it. It has ALWAYS helped me.