...Your post can probably help many on here. But there are also some that it comes across as hurtful... ...It's this air of false expertise your post brings. Most of us have researched our illnesses well, or just through experience alone know them inside and out. We know what it is and what it isn't. It's different for everyone. It's never simple. It's complex and it's cruel. And if we never face it, never face that label, how can we hope to overcome it?

You want people to have control over their depression? Help them to know it first. To understand what depression is, not just what you think it is. But what it is to them. Because as I said, it's different for everyone.