People who haven’t experienced clinical depression cannot sympathize with us because they have no experience having it. I don’t think I’ve ever had someone directly tell me to snap out of it, but I’ve had people ask what I have to be depressed about. Sometimes there is no exact reason, it can be from an infinite number of things that often we don’t even realize. I probably feel down from my inability to have a relationship or have enough confidence in myself to even open up to people, then again it could all be contributed by a chemical imbalance, lack of sleep, what I had for lunch, a number of factors that may not even be a result of how I’m feeling. Depression is definitely real, we can all speak from experience and it wouldn’t be such a well-known thing if it weren’t real. My grandma says back in her day if you told people you were depressed they’d think you’re crazy, but with advances in medical and technology a lot of people have come to understand how real depression really is. People that think a clinically depressed person can just snap out of it need to think outside of the box and not ridicule us for having something we don’t even want to deal with in the first place.