So you're using your experience of not being depressed to argue that depression isn't a real mental illness? Ok... that makes no sense.
So you're agreeing I wasn't depressed to refute my argument about others possibly not being depressed, that at least, follow the same pattern as me? Only difference is, I am self-aware enough to call out on it.
You said yourself that you weren't depressed. The basis of the disorder is a chemical imbalance in your brain, it's not a matter of "how people choose to react"
Yes. but that's self-reflection, another person might come along and say, no that's depression, that's the point of i'm making. I could very well have said, no i was depressed, but after looking back at it, i feel that it would be mocking other disorders, if i classify my state as a mental disorder. As such, i classify it as my own weakness to adapt, not something to blame mental disorder on.