I'm sorry that my experience with it doesn't coincide with your own in a way that affirms your thinking about it. For me, it is much more visceral. I am a person who has come up from less than nothing, has created my own destiny, has built my own ways of thinking as completely separate from my parents, my culture, my environment. I know the difference between errant controllable thoughts, and the variety of mental affliction that manifests itself as depression in my own mind. I wish it was indeed as simple, for me, as your own experience or vision of it is for you.

I've said this before but certainly won't repeat myself in this thread: there are different kinds of depression, different comorbidities, different individual experiences, and none can be fully accounted for by any one individual person. Although I share my experience for the benefit of those who may struggle with difficulties similar to my own as I am surely not absolutely alone in my particular plight, I always make a point of making sure that my own comments underline the fact that I am only reporting on my own experience, and not speaking for anyone else. It's a matter both of respect for the experiences of others, and of the reality that I can't possibly know exactly how things are for anyone other than myself.