So a depressive doesn't have to be depressed all of the time. You aren't doomed to always have some level of depression 100% of the time. I don't have to settle for that. I DO experience true, 100% happiness and contentment a great deal of the time. Is that that way 100% of the time? Of course not. I said that. No one is 100% happy 100% of the time. But YOU said, no one with depression is EVER truly happy. I disagree with that.

I think where our misunderstanding is coming in is in how we define 100%. It appears that you define "not depressed" as zero depression 100% of the time. THAT is unrealistic. AND it is not my definition. I define "not depressed" as zero depression at some point in time, in my case at this point, the majority of the time. I'm cool with that. I'm ecstatic with that actually.

You say what I experience is impossible for someone who suffers from depression to experience at all ("a depressive is never truly happy") and that if I "stub my toe", and get a bit depressed about it it negates my experience of complete absence of depression (happiness) entirely. I'd say we have an entirely different view of what happiness is.