I think there might be some truth to what you're saying. Depression is certainly a part of life, but I think the confusion here is about the type of depression.

I think there might be some truth to what you're saying. Depression is certainly a part of life, but I think the confusion here is about the type of depression. Most people get depressed from time to time, but others have physical and mental problems that lead to very severe depression, manic depression. These people can't just fix their problems and get better like normal people when we get depressed, because their depression doesn't stem from their problems. That's not to say that their problems can't compound the depression, my sister is bipolar and gets REALLY depressed sometimes, and certainly some of that is her situation, but a lot of it is also hereditary mental illness she got from my mother. No amount of "grow the fuck up" is going to fix that, trust me, we've tried.