John,
"It is a different experience for everyone and trying to prove or disprove who did what or how much seems like a waste of energy that could be better spent on achieving a deeper understanding of each other, something that might actually lead to helping people out of depression, instead of trying to put a burden on others."
That's quite an implied accusation you seem to add at the end there and I wonder what made you think I'm here to try to put a burden on people. My very reason for responding in the first place was that I felt burdened by the debate here, because it felt as it was crossing the line from accentuating the positive into denying the negative.
What I wish to add to this debate, is to ensure that all the hyper-positive you-too-can-do-this-trust-me-it-works talk, does not implicitly cast aspersions on people for whom the various approaches do not (or not yet) work. If it's not working for you, if you are still caught in your depression and nothing works, you are not uniquely deficient; you are part of the mainstream as I am. You may still overcome it one way or another, but there are no guarantees and you do still have to do it all yourself.
Regards,
Ron.
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