Is it 'normal' to be depressed occasionally?

Anonymous
I'm not talking on levels where I'd go from happily skipping around a fiield to plotting mass murder in an instant, I thought about this recently when coming home from work; When I'm in good company I'm happy, I'm talkative, not the life of the party but I've normally got a smile on my face. Other times I come home from work i just distance myself from everyone, turn off my phone, put on a couple of soft songs (Currently, Passenger - Holoscene/Golden Leaves in acoustic are the sort of ones I put on), grab myself a beer, sit down in my living room listening to the rain hit the window and think over my entire life, how far I've come, where I want to go, etc. And, on even rarer occasions, just break down to myself for a few hours.

Occasionally I go around the country just to clear my head or just as a holiday, go somewhere new and meet new people, learn their experiences, listen about their life stories and problems, understanding who a person is and who they stand for helps understand how they are as a person, how their head reacts to different situations and how it shaped them into the person they are today.

I may go as far as to say I'm suffering from depression, because society still deems that whole topic as tabboo, most not even coming close to understanding how a depressed mind works, but I can agree that now at least I'm not going to start going lengths such as self harm etc, It's disapointing as from experience the sheer mention of 'depression' to some people then start to think of you some crazy psychopath, It's thrown around in the media as some sort of irrational joke.

I haven't exactly discussed this with many people, I'm having a rough time recently because of an ex-girlfriend so I felt the need to vent, I'm thinking of looking at behavioral therapy but in my current location there's not really any places to go to for that, oh well.
Is it 'normal' to be depressed occasionally?
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