I really, really hate when someone says something to the effect of "if you want to be happy, you just have to choose to be!"

At the same time that their lack of understanding bothers me, I also can't help but wish them all the best; it must be brilliant to have gone through life this far without every really having to personally understand mental illness. In the same way that I just can't relate to people who truly ARE positive, happy, and generally well adjusted and all those excellent things, I'm sure those people can't really relate to someone like me, or someone with a different mental illness than me,