Depression is an illness. If the guy had died of cancer, would you be reading so much into his decision to "let himself go"? (I confess I find this turn of phr

Depression is an illness. If the guy had died of cancer, would you be reading so much into his decision to "let himself go"? (I confess I find this turn of phrase so repugnant that I can barely bring myself to type it, even inside scare quotes. Its implication is that a person with a proper philosophy, or one whose belief was sufficiently sincere, wouldn't have slacked off to the point that they suffered from a debilitating, painful, often fatal condition that is apparently the number-four cause of disability in the USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc )