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Re:Scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of ... by DanBC on Monday January 05, 2015 @07:44PM (#8842290)
But then posts like yours are at risk of saying "you only think you had depression, but you got better, so fuck you for faking it you liar. I have real depression".
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Re:Scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of ... by superuser2 on Monday January 05, 2015 @08:25PM (#8842423)
It's not that "your experience wasn't real depression" because people experience it differently and "real" depression is a uselessly ill-defined concept.

It is that "your experience does not make you qualified to pass negative judgements on others who are probably experiencing something very different from you."

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Re:Scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of ... by DanBC on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @05:42AM (#8843717)
Okay, but you will get that even if you use differet words for depression. You could say "I have 'detailed-specific-cancer-name", and people will give you bullshit advice about some other totally different cancer.

Changing the name of a diagnosis does nothing to reduce ignorance of that diagnosis.

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