So it turned out that while I took friday off to recover from my depression, the person who I manage was physically sick after being at work during the day. She had to cover something that came up and then had a major physical ailment.

The fact is she has a lot of problems physically that everyone in the office feels horrible for her and wants her to get better. I'm naturally frustrated because for me, it means I get no attention or am looked at being weak with my mental health issues (which are seen more as "being a negative person" or "not attentive" and such).

You can say that depression is as real as any physical illness all you want, but it doesn't help. The fact is everyone really believes it's a will power issue and that I just need to get over my feelings or I should just go to therapy and be fine. It makes me mad that I've got problems at all when I'm physically fine and not facing such difficult things as this other person.

But my feelings don't matter in comparison. I can't say anything to anyone or I end up looking like an uncaring jerk. I just don't have the empathy in me at this time. I'm trying to fight my own battle to function.