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Being depressed about depressing circumstances is not mental illness. Prove me wrong.
You are correct. Sometimes people say "depressed" when what they truly mean is "sad". There's plenty to be sad about.
EDIT: Battling chronic clinical depression since 1989. Depression makes no sense.
What about when the depression prevents someone from changing their depressing circumstances?
I’m not saying all depressing circumstances are changeable (see also the serenity prayer), but there are plenty of people who leave a bad situation once they get help, and then no longer need that help.
And then there are people who aren’t even in a bad situation they’re just anhedonic and struggling with depression.
And being optimistic in truly hopeless, depressing circumstances is delusional.
Especially when the root causes are outside of your control.
OK, so it's not mental illness, it's realism. How do you propose people deal with that situation?
I would start with therapies that help them identify what changes they need to make. Then, give the person treatments that have been proven to create better outcomes for people-in-depressing-circumstances (lifestyle and pharmaceutical).
Oh hey, I just invented mental healthcare for people with "realism."
I'm depressed because we're killing the planet and everything that lives on it.