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This is useless, you can't "just smile" when you have depression, that's not how it works. You can't "just snap out of it"

• lisper 9y ago
  I'm not saying that "just smiling" is a magic incantation that will somehow make your depression vanish instantly. But you can "just smile" when you're depressed. It's not easy, but it's possible. I know because I've been there. The important thing about smiling is not what it does to you (although it turns out that merely smiling actually can make you feel better in and of itself) but what it does to those you interact with: it conceals the fact that you're depressed, and makes them more likely to want to interact with you, and that is what actually helps. But yes, it can take a little while to get over the hump.
• erikpukinskis 9y ago
  Of course you can smile with depression. You don’t have to be happy, you don’t have to enjoy it. Inside you want to die, outside you have a smile on your face, and attempt to process what someone is saying to you and reply to what they are saying in a friendly way.