Sometimes I think they should just start over with naming illnesses the media has doing such a number on some of the labels that the public reacts to the label in a visceral way.

Cancer invokes concern & pity, bipolar/manic depression invokes fear. Depression has been so overused that people are starting to think any depression is a bad thing and grief needs to be medicated away. I agree with the poster who said there needs to be a distraction between depressed and MDD. At least in the USA. Mental illness in a misnomer anyway as they are learning it's not just in the brain but the whole body. Nobody walks around saying I'm cancer, I'm hypertension they say I have ....._______. I have trouble with the whole AA philosophy, I think it would be easier to say I struggle with alcoholism, and not internalize it so much. How are you supposed to recover if you carry it internally? It's like a set up to fail. I am not my illness I was not born this way. Just my take on this whole issue, I'm just tired of the labeling.