Nobody likes the idea of being ill, but unfortunately it is just what depression is... a disease. This doesn't mean giving up, but not even trying to act as if we were normally endowed.
If one has a disease he must pull himself together and accept it. But depression affects SPECIFICALLY the abiliy to pull oneself together.

I know that the stigma from society hurts me, in particular when I am in a depressive episode, but I prefer to disregard it and get any possible medical treatment...