ImOpen,
I really appreciate your efforts to educate people about depression and other mood disorders, but they just don't get it. And unless they go through a major depression themselves, they never will. I'm not trying to discourage you, but I'm just stating a fact that I had to accept myself.
Some people can beat depression without medication, some have to have medication, some have to have medication and ECT (shock therapy). Some never quite get over it and die as a result of it. Just because someone doesn't have to have medication doesn't mean that they are a better person. Nor is the suicide any less of a person because they felt they had suffered enough. They are all worthy of integrity and respect, simply because they are all human beings. I know you understand this. Maybe one day, the rest of the world will, too.
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