My dad once turned to me and said "Son. You're not depressed. There's no such thing as depression" followed by these types of rants you are all speaking of. He did himself a long term injury 10 years ago and since then he cannot work and is now a sufferer himself of depression. He now knows what its like to feel like this and now sympathises with me. Others don't. My point is not that i have somehow got my revenge by this or any other horrible thing like that. More that, people never understand our pain and suffering unless the shoe is on the other foot. I have countlessly come across this througout life. We aren't lazy. We aren't making up excuses. We genuinly are unwell. A million text books could be wrote on this and my wife could read them all. But if I say to her "I don't want to go to this concert because there are too many people there" or " I just can't explain right now. I don't feel like it" I will still be labelled as selfish and told to "get a grip". I feel your pain. All of you.