>>54216117
Not that guy, but I dunno man, I think a lot of people just think they have clinical depression, rather than really do.
I once used to, till I shared a house with a few people for a few years. One of roommates had his friend staying for a few months, and he had extreme manic depression. When we first met him he was excitable and hyper to the point that it seemed like he was constantly abusing some kind of amphetamine, although he was always friendly. A little later he literally would not leave his bed all day, just staring at the ceiling. He started locking the door when we commented on it. He wouldn't answer calls or say anything, not even to his girlfriend. He lost his job because he wasn't turning up, he barely ate anything, and never when anyone was around... he was pissing in bottles around his room. I found out he hung himself in an attic in his parent's house a few years later.
There are people, most people, who experience sadness, sometimes for long periods, or people who are generally unhappy with their life, and find it gets them down. That is not clinical depression, that is a natural reaction to being alive, to a set of circumstances. There are others who have nothing to be sad about, and yet find themselves suicidal, ruining their lives through inaction, suddenly at a loss of all empathy and any kind of meaningful emotion. That's clinical depression. I didn't really understand the distinction till this experience, but what I have when I feel down, and what I feel most people have, is certainly not that.