Thanks for your replies guys. I've had a pretty bad week but I think I know what's going on with me now. I still feel pretty horrible for feeling this way about other people but I realise it's hard for me to feel sympathetic for people's personal problems when they mislabel them as 'depression' because it took me so long to accept that's what I have. pretty much the only thing that has kept me going since my diagnosis sometimes has been to remind myself of what the doctors etc finally told me after all those years: that I'm not a bad person, I just have something to struggle with that healthy people don't. And that needing help is not attention-seeking. When people self-diagnose for attention, it threatens how I view myself for suffering. However, I now realise that some people say they have depression because they think they do - they have nothing to compare to. They're probably not feeling great because of personal problems and are seeking attention because they need help. I guess I'll have to be understanding and try and block out the 'depression' bit and just hear that they don't feel good and need help. It's going to be hard, though. It just provokes a visceral response in me to see people talk like that / post that **** online...