[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by chav1

dont get me started on people who are on disability with depression

what a bloody joke

cheer up you miserable sods everyone has problems and they manage to work

This sort of attitude to depression really makes me angry.

Depression is an illness. It is as far removed from 'feeling a bit miserable' as chronic pneumonia is from having a bit of a cough. Someone suffering from clinical depression is totally incapable of 'cheering up' or 'snapping out of it' and an attitude like yours adds to the problem by loading them with additional feelings of guilt. Do you suppose for one minute anyone would choose not to 'cheer up' if they could? Because depression is an illness which cannot be seen the sufferers are treated with the sort of intollerant attitude that you wouldn't dream of treating a person with a broken limb or other physical disability.

I hope you never suffer from it yourself and get faced with people with your attitude.