Maybe it’s just me but when I see a layperson say “this person is depressed” I don’t assume they’re armchair diagnosing clinical depression. Depressed mood is not great but it’s also not inherently disordered, it’s a normal part of the human experience and doesn’t mean someone has a mental health diagnosis.
Oh. Well, no, that's not what depression is. That's what sometimes causes people who are not clinically depressed to say "I'm depressed about X," but that's not what depression is.
"Feeling depressed" is not what we call clinical depression. Clinical depression means you just cannot function on your own anymore. Seeing it happening to someone you knew for years is eye opening.
There may be reason to believe that depressed people are more realistic about certain things, but it doesn't follow that being realistic causes depression or that only depressed people are realistic.
Neither of you guys have had clinical depression. just because everyone gets the blues sometimes doesn't mean they understand someone with genuine depression. keep your platitudes to yourself.
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