was once told that I could 'snap out of depression if I really wanted to', and that seems pretty fucking discriminatory against people with mental problems.

The problem is that people who haven't experienced depression don't know what it's like. Someone I know used to be pretty suicidely depressed, and I never quite knew what to say because deep inside I couldn't help but wonder if they were just too weak to face up to reality. Which is comeplete bullshit, I know, and I would never say it out loud, but nevertheless...