Understanding Depressive Personality Trait
By: Christine Hammond, LMHC Being depressive is not the same thing as having depression. The two can look the same to an outside person as the symptoms are similar. The major difference is that a depressive can actually have depression but a person with depression is not depressive. Depression is situational such as grieving the loss of a friend or it is chemical such as your body overproducing certain hormones. Depressive is a personality trait and is not based on situation or chemical factors. So what is Depressive? Well, according to the new DSM-V, depressive did not make the final personality disorder cut and instead is classified under Personality Disorder Trait Specified (PDTS). This means that there was not enough research to properly classify depressives as having a named personality disorder but there is evidence enough that it does exist. So the traits of depressive are still classifiable and qualify as a P...