There are people that have worse anxiety and people with worse depression (possibly), so I assume they tell the truth and it's nice to talk about it.

But people sometimes don't realise that it's the combination of the two and the perceptual changes that it causes that make it something so often insurmountable.

They (often) see it as separate problems. They therefore (probably) don't know how hard it is to deal with, escape from. The dynamics that are in some ways worse than anxiety, mania and depression, the toxic combination.

Some might also have no experience with atypical depression, in that you can suspend depression for some time, afterwards plunging back into utter despair and mental pain, often worse than before, it all having been built up, like opening a floodgate.

The same with mania. I sometimes begin hyperventilating just from keeping mania suspended for some time, the energy building to great extremes, being very fearful, while it's barely noticeable.

People understand anxiety (and sometimes depression), how it limits what you can (easily) do, but they don't understand how delusions can create invisible forces you can't possibly ignore, limiting you a lot more. Almost infinitely more.

They don't see the underground war.