Another problem is if you were to describe the symptoms of your diabetes, how you could go into diabetic shock, loose your eyesight, and other things, people can relate to that on an external level. They wouldn't want those things to happen to them.

But when you try to describe the symptoms of depression, people believe they can relate to them internally. And so they think "yea that has happened to me, and I just ate a gallon of ice cream and then felt better! So why don't you just do that?"

They don't understand that the defining difference between their "depression" and yours is that you are physiologically unable to "snap out of it" and it doesn't respond to "pleasurable" activities as it should.

I wrote a paper addressing this a while ago and you can get a copy of it at
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