(January 16, 2015 at 11:34 am)Newtonscat Wrote: Under no circumstances would I personally be happy to be thought of as having a 'mental illness' by those who had authority and influence over my life. I know what depression is and have my own very effective ways of dealing with it when I perceive that its causing me problems.
I call bullshit on that one. And ignorant bullshit at that. If you've got acute clinical depression, there's no way anyone can deal with it on their own. Before I had it, I thought like you, that I can deal with being depressed, but then I got hit by the real thing.