Well, with any illness there are still things we have to do, to manage them. I'm diabetic, so I have to check my sugar, stay on the right diet, and take my insulin. If I ignored all that and then got sick, to say, "Well, I can't help being sick, I'm diabetic" is exactly the same in principle as the depression issue.

(I'm hoping "more spiritual than medical" doesn't have any religious implications, i.e. that it doesn't mean, "If you'd only get right with God, you wouldn't be depressed." I've actually been told that I'm not a real Christian because if I were, Jesus would heal me of my depressive illness.)

Depression is NOT my fault. It IS an illness. Does that mean I can't help it? No.