[Epona]

No I agree it doesn't help anyone, and that people should seek help, but I still think that you have completely failed to understand what depression is, how it overwhelms your life, drains your energy, leaves you feeling cut off from the world, unable to move, unable to function, unable to talk to anyone about what you're going through. There is also the issue of the stigma attached to depression and other mental health issues. It can be totally paralysing.

If only it was as simple as just going to get help.

Fortunately I have never suffered from depression, but I have lived and shared my life for a time with someone who did. When you see someone you care for, an intelligent person with a lot to offer, spend most of their time asleep and their waking hours withdrawn or crying for reasons that they cannot even begin to explain to you, the total hopelessness that they see - when you have talked someone like that out of suicide once - when you have seen them take a bottle of pills because it has all become too much - then you can begin to understand.

It is not as simple as just deciding to go and get help. I really suggest you do a google search on 'clinical depression' and 'manic depression' - you will be able to find a lot of information from people who have suffered with these illnesses, which may help you to understand - because at the moment you clearly have no idea what suffering from such a condition (or living with a sufferer) is like.