Every time I hear that I just want to face palm. Usually, it's from someone who is about my mom's age. Well, seeing as my mom has been battling depression since her twenties... I think it's safe to say they did have depression back then. (To add to this, there is a list of famous, well known individuals floating on the internet somewhere who had depression or displayed depression like symptoms from "back in the day")

I'm always afraid to mention my depression because of this stigma. To be honest, I think it was the reason I've been so hesitant on getting help for my other concerns. I've finally decided to but it took me many years.

The worst part is, so many people who repeat these blatant lies believe they are true so much that they speak as though they are experts on the subject. Experts who have no training in psychology, have never picked up a psychology book, and probably have not even taking the first basic psych class in high school or college. They're "experts" only because that's what they were told.

Exactly this. Or the myth that everyone is either fully right brained or fully left brained and no one uses both sides. I will never understand where these myths come from or why people believe them. I want to know why, though. And I guess that's why I want to be a psych. major. (lol.. )