You are a dumbass who has no idea how depression works. Get your ignorant ass gone.

Or maybe I'm not ignorant and just sick of this generation of "special snowflakes" who hide behind self diagnosed mental problems instead of doing something about their life. For people with REAL mental problems like yourself (according to your bio) it is just insulting.

Yeah, I do have real mental illnesses. And most of the people I've met that say they have depression? They either have depression or their life is enough of a hellscape that "making an effort" to be happy doesn't mean shit. The "special snowflake" thing is largely a lie- the average person with issues that looks up mental or emotional disorders doesn't do it because they think some life-impairing disorder will be "fun" or "trendy" to have- they do it because oh, hey, this disorder makes sense with their symptoms. A lot of them have to bring the disorder to their doctor to get an eval because, gee, the average doctor has too many patients to really keep in mind each ones behavior and thus are very likely to MISS obvious disorders. The ones that DO fake them? They tend to wind up being caught out when they get tired of being treated the way people with disorders get treated, or when they realize the medicine they've been put on has side effects that out way the "special" way they get treated. Also, anyone that is depressed enough that three of their friends ditch them? There is something going on there that is more than a "bad attitude."