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1) You need to develop a POSITIVE attitude
2) Life is what you make it
3) Stop feeling sorry for yourself
4) If you think "depressed" you'll BE depressed
5) I don't want to hear about your problems!
6) Oh, your just a complainer...stop whining!
7) Just read a book/take a walk and you'll feel better
8) Your just feeling sorry for yourself
9) You need to just pull yourself up by your bootstraps!

Why do ignorant people who have never experienced depression themselves seem to think the answers to treating depression are as simple as a one-liner?

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Short answer: because they are thoroughly obsessed and possessed by the mistaken belief that depression is a "choice". And they are saturated with that poisonous toxic lie because it's what's been shoved down their throats all their lives. The only difference between you and them is, you were smart enough not to buy the bullsh*t.

That's my current theory, anyway.

P.S. - I hate that *****. Don't even get me started on what I would like to do -- VERY SLOWLY AND PAINFULLY -- to everyone who ever dumped that crap on my head in ANY form .....

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... but the very SECOND I get bummed out and even mention the word "depression", I get ganged up on and treated like some kind of whiny little freak who is just feeling sorry for myself and trying to drag everyone else down with me. Anyone else ever experience this?

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Only forever ... but mostly when I was younger. I think by the time you hit 35 or so, "they" figure if you haven't "snapped out of it" by then, you're really messed up, and by then it's not polite to point and laugh at that age, y'know?