Yea. My counselor was like that because when she went to school way back they learned that depression is a made up thing not a real illness that we create so we can get people to cater to us. She told me only schizophrenics and bipolar people have real mental illness.

Fact is I never really wanted to waste people's time, but I survived because people encouraged me to.

My counselor thought if I was kicked off welfare and had to work full time, I would snap out of it. She yelled at me because she said my BFF enabled me in my bad habits by giving me food so I wouldn't starve.

Since then I understand that I really don't understand much about what other people go through... but I try not to think they aren't trying enough...

Of course sometimes I don't have patience, which is basically no one's fault, and sometimes I say the wrong things, but at least I'm not saying my ignorance is knowledge.