Tell us how depression isn’t a choice?
Seriously?
Ask the seven year old who, when asked what he wanted for his birthday, replied, one day without pain. Ask him why he is stupid enough to want to feel that way. Ask him why he knows what joy is, but somehow refuses to embrace it???
There is a huge misunderstanding regarding the nature of affective disorders. Unless you or a member of your immediate family suffers from clinical depression - you have never met anyone who did, nor did they share their story with you, because they were unable to leave their bed and unable to complete a rational argument.
There is a spectrum of affective disorder, ranging from chronic dysthymia (aka - “the blues”) all the way to clinical depression at the extreme of the other side.
Dysthymia is a pain in the ass, clinical depression is deadly.
Still waiting to hear the miracle cure....