Obviously the original poster seems to agree with the many people advising not to take the victim mindset as the title has been changed. Describing yourself as

Obviously the original poster seems to agree with the many people advising not to take the victim mindset as the title has been changed. Describing yourself as "damaged" is the victim label word choice, not an objective medical mental state term. Only later was it mentioned as anhedonia. The damaged description has been changed to depression to describe a condition not a label. No where did I suggest that they should just "get over" depression or their anhedonia. It's that they should not allow those things to define them as damaged. I can't tell if you're intentionally misunderstanding or if you really don't get the difference. To compare a literal medical condition (20 broken bones) with a non-medical label (mentally damaged) seems as it could be either. Any perceived double standards on mental vs physical care is only in your head. Proper labeling of any condition for both the doctor and the patient is critical. If you suffer massive trama (such as your broken bones) and allow the label of cripple to define you, that's what you'll be. It is normal for everyone in life to encounter challenges. Be they physical or mental. To have a view that your physical or mental condition is special or somehow makes you not normal does a great disservice to yourself. You seem very talented at reading words that do not exist and telling people they assume things when most everything you've written is an assumption. It may be time to look up "objective" vs "subjective". It's not helpful to the discussion to put words in people's mouth.