has anyone had experience with family/friends blaming your depression for big changes or big feelings in your life? for instance, saying "you're only feeling this way because you're going through a depressive episode"?
how do you deal with that? how do you validate your feelings or your changes IN SPITE of your diagnosis? how do you make them realize you can have big feelings and still have depression, but that they don't have to be one-in-the-same?