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Originally Posted by Hellion
...part of being depressed is an inability to do a lot of those things on the list on a consistent basis...and it sort of seems to define depression and happiness as simple 'choices' when its more complex than that...If I could just choose not to be depressed I would have done it a long time ago.
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That's how I feel, too. I had another session with my therapist today, and she said pretty much the same thing, that it's all about "choices". All this does is frustrate me. I feel mad enough at myself that I can't do things as I usually would if I weren't experiencing the depression. For the life of me I don't know why anyone would "choose" to be depressed. Of course I want to be happy! I want to live a "normal" life. If I could just do x, y, z to not feel this way, I would have. When people say that it's all about choices, all it does is fuel the mistaken belief that depression and other mental illnesses don't really exist and that our character is flawed. That list may work for some people, but not for me, not right now.