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It's not that "your experience wasn't real depression" because people experience it differently and "real" depression is a uselessly ill-defined concept. It is
by superuser2 12y ago
It's not that "your experience wasn't real depression" because people experience it differently and "real" depression is a uselessly ill-defined concept.
It is that "your experience does not make you qualified to pass negative judgements on others who are probably experiencing something very different from you."
- DanBC 12y agoOkay, but you will get that even if you use differet words for depression. You could say "I have 'detailed-specific-cancer-name", and people will give you bullshit advice about some other totally different cancer. Changing the name of a diagnosis does nothing to reduce ignorance of that diagnosis.