I'm not getting the hostility, especially from you, a guy who doesn't seem particularly prone to insults. If you disagree with me, fine, disagree, but don't call me names because my opinion differs from yours.
I'm speaking as someone who has long battled clinical depression.
You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts: depression is a disease, and it kills. Your kind of "it's nothing, just shake it off" attitude contributes to the death toll.
If you don't understand the disease, research the sad case of late freeper "TrappedinLiberalHell," or tell it to his surviving girlfriend, freeper "KangarooJacqui."