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Then you never had clinical depression.

• yters 9y ago
  Sounds like the no true Scotsman fallacy. For instance my understanding of clinical depression is people often have suicidal ideation. I had that, would imagine throwing myself out a window, down the side of a mountain, etc. But I never would follow through because I noticed how my depression filtered my view of the world, and once the feeling passed things did not seem so bad. It would be horrible to make such a final decision as suicide, since it guaranteed my life would not improve, even though my depression told me it never would. Plus, believing I could go to hell for suicide helped keep me from doing it, and concern for how it would affect those I love. Finally, it seemed like such a selfish decision.
  • varjag 9y ago
    Everyone imagines own death, it's nothing abnormal. Moreover, it's not just depressed people who get suicidal, and far from all people depressed are suicidal. Clinically depressed people are numb for life, they are not wailing in self pity.