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I agree with you on this. But I also believe that depression is now accepted because people are using the term at the drop of a hat. Like "I am so depressed because I burned the roast we were going to have for dinner." Or "Johnny is so depressed because he is grounded for the weekend." There is a huge difference between Depression and being upset. But depressed and depression have become common terms for describing a mood just like the words happy and sad.
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I think depression is viewed as less harmless on societal level. You are not challenging its concepts. My manias are notorious for arguing with my textbooks (I study International Relations... and once I written essay manic phase where I rip the whole premise of IR as a field... because post-modernism says we cannot discover the truth).
Manias are where you go out and cause havoc and do things others may not approve of. In depressions you are just... real down and non-functional, which is not good, but not percieved as harmful.
(I see merits in both states for me... but it take lotta willpower to do things.... or not to do thing and I worry about myself sometimes).
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Venus, I understand your point. Most of the time, we should be grateful for having food, water, shelter, and political stability. But when depression gets so intense that we would honestly rather die than continue, I believe that we are worse off than those dying of starvation. I'd rather feel physical pain than psychological pain, and I'd rather die a physical death than a psychological one. And if I had to define serious depression, I'd call it a living death.
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for me it is just helpful to remind myself that I have it good, I have chance to make something of this life. I know how much depression sucks. Been there just few weeks ago. Regretting each morning I woke up. May slip there again. Right now I feel like I am in some trippy reality show.... but this too shall pass... as much as I complain about fate and life... I have it better than majority of the world. And I don't want to waste this chance on self-pity... because that would lead me only to more misery.
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I get the ignorance, but what really gets me more than thinking I'm insane is just thinking that I'm making it up. that it isn't a disease. that' I'm making excuses. They don't understand the symtpoms and they think I use them to go shopping instead of go to work.
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the thing is many of us contribute to this stigma... by acting like totaly out of control and scary. Been there done that... Scared few people running to the hills (and I don't even know if I should regret it...). Used my bipolar as excuse of why I can't do living. Yeah... people don't understand. But maybe it is good for us to be pushed a bit.
for example I read about schools in the US can accomodate you with deadlines and stuff... if they did that to me, it would take away the structure and sense of normalcy out of my life. I think to many "getting worse" is that we get wrapped up in our disorder and forget how to do the stuff needed for living. So maybe too much "understanding" can be a bad thing for some.
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