Mal:
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What does it matter to you, if someone else is depressed or not... Why is it any of your business at all? How does someone else's feelings affect you?
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The connotation of the word 'depression' demonstrates it's undesirablity - no one here could defend depression as a
good thing.
Depressive illnesses interfere with normal functioning and cause pain and suffering not only to those who have a disorder,
but also to those who care about them.
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Until you've walked a mile or more in someone else's shoes... You absolutely cannot understand anyone's position. You think you might know what's best, but that's on your perception, it's extremely arrogant to think you can dismiss someone else's emptional state without first understanding the individual.
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It's certainly my perception, and I'd never claim otherwise. That's a function of being seperate entities, but it is mutually exclusive from my ability to understand a state of mind and its pathology. Since you've dismissed my position without first understanding me, I think your statement is quite ironic. You seem to claim that if someone had been cheated on, I could not offer them solutions without first being cheated on. That is certainly one way to understand someone's emotional state, but it is not the only way.
Since you've posed a question to me, I'll pose one to you:
If you had personal experience with a situation, had a solution to the problem which could be (and has been) universalized successfully, would you abstain from sharing your solution? How strongly would you have to feel about it before you offered your solution to strangers? Would you ever?