I am enjoying a wonderfully long remission. It has been years since I have been severely depressed. As I read some of your posts, I can understand completely what you all are going through as I have been there. In the worst way. But reading as a person who is essentially "well", I am beginning to understand how difficult it must be for somebody who has never had depression, or any other kind of mental illness for that matter, to get it. How can they begin to understand something so intricate and deceptive? It always angers me to see that non-sufferers can put us down so easily. But somehow, there is a part of me that understands why. I have no idea where I am going with this. But I always like to put myself in the other person's shoes.