Please. Having a mental disorder is stigmatized enough already. Please don't play into it by implying it's not real.
"Depression is definitely real, and fairly easy to diagnose for"
It is so "easy" to diagnose that a bunch of sad people go around telling others that they are depressed and the world needs to bend to their self-diagnosed "stigmatized" enough "disease". Again. Give us a break.
Personally it all sounds very familiar. So familiar I'd admit I'm mildly depressed. But I do still have a pad of good ideas that I add to.
Also very interesting is that yes even with ideas I'm not good at doing them - but the suggestion that their thing might be the enabling others to achieve theirs really sticks out for me. I'm definitely at my best helping others to do better.
All in I'd say it was a good response.
I didn't say "you are depressed". I said "have you considered that you might be...". When did that become diagnosis?
FWIW I said "clinically depressed" to draw the specific distinction between colloquial use of the word "depressed" meaning "down", and the medical notion of depression that covers this sort of stuff -- long term loss of direction, low self-esteem negativity etc.
It's just a suggestion to consider the whole picture and maybe seek advice.
Yeah, that logic doesn't really check out dude. You can cry all you want that you didn't diagnose the lad, but language sure is a lot more complex than just yes and no in many cases. And you sure did imply a clinical diagnosis heavily, and quickly. Honestly, if you'd just used "depressed" as opposed to "clinically depressed," I may have even taken you seriously. But honestly, I don't think you'd even know the difference even if I smacked you over the head with a dictionary. Not to mention the pointless smartassery.
Oh? What's that? Is that me labeling you because of a perceived tone in your words? Huh. Funny how language works out, right? Twat.
I didn't diagnose. I made a suggestion. Full fucking stop. I didn't imply a diagnosis.
I suggested the possibility (I even used that fucking word). That he might want to think about it. Because the entire tone of the OP's question suggested it to me. Based on my own miserable lived experience of the last two years, for what it is worth.
So fuck off with this po-faced internet warrior shit.
Oh, and since we're waving around personal experience as a stick, as if it leads credence to our words; I was diagnosed with clinical depression years ago. And yet, you don't see me just assuming and then implying that someone else is clinically depressed, when reading someone's post, just because it strikes a cord or seems similar. This is literally why we have professionals for the field, so that they can make the decision of whether the depression is clinical or just the winter blues, while morons like us can continue to argue and waste ours and others time.
If you just wanted OP to think about it, like you say, you could've just as easily have asked if he'd considered the thought that he might be depressed. Instead of, you know, if OP is bloody clinically depressed. Those are very different things.
So, likewise, fuck off with this trite "I'm not diagnosing, just suggesting—and thereby implying—that you may be clinically depressed—which, by the very definition of the phrase, means that a doctor has given you a diagnosis of depression. And it's usually used for when it's a more severe case—when there's a perfectly apt, commonly used, non-diagnosis alternative that wouldn't imply a diagnosis that I won't use because I'm not diagnosing—trust me, bro!" shit. I severely doubt you are an active, practicing PD or psychologist, given your lackadaisical use of clinical conditions.