So earlier today I was with my best friend, and he mentioned that he think a lot of illness can be fixed with a "mind over matter" way of looking at it. I then said something akin to "well, you can't cure cancer with mind over matter" to which he replied, "I suppose, I guess I just mean stuff like depression."

This has been eating at me all day. I only recently got up the courage to tell him I got diagnosed bipolar ii, and he's been totally cool about the whole thing. I guess that's why I was bothered. I said that depression is biological, same as diabetes, it can't be simplified to "mind over matter." That was the end of it, but it still kind of pissed me off. Like, it just sucks, because I know he doesn't understand, and I wouldn't want him to experience depression, but it sucks that people think that way.