Faggots need to go back to the Great Depression and eat rabbit for breakfast, lunch, dinner and live in a milk crate.
Then tell me you've got depression.
Please.
I know you were taking the piss but..
I think centuries of anecdotes would suggest that depression doesn't discriminate. Just as living in poverty doesn't guarantee that you will definitely develop a mental illness, living in a comparatively developed, 'comfortable' situation where you have a stable nuclear family and food on your table doesn't guarantee your happiness.
If that was the case, then trends would show levels of depression only in people falling in the lowest socio-economic brackets.
It is your pattern of thought (thus neurological factors) that determine your perception of experiences.
I tell people with athsma and diabetes to get over it all the time. Especially if it is caused through their own actions. ie fat people with diabetes from being fat, smokers with athsma. Makes me feel great about myself really. Therefore why should i make allowances for people with depression when it is caused by their own actions? ie being shit at life etc (you know what i mean).
This is quite a superficial argument. You're saying people
just over-eat and smokers
just smoke. As if to condemn people who may be labeled as either, as wanting to commit themselves to suffer adverse consequences. And also to say that this is the only reason why someone would want to do either.
Could it be possible that maybe people 'stuff their faces' and engage in habitual activities niave to their own harm, in order to deal with other things in their lives?
I don't call this being shit at life. I call this not having efficient coping mechanisms.
What I consider being shit at life is complaining and presenting non-helpful arguments about illnesses that more than likely currently affect or will affect many people in your life. Dick's like you tell people to 'stop complaining' and condemn the victim as the perpetrator (when their is neither), ultimately perpetuating the gross stigma surrounding mental illness, meaning people feel embarrassed to get help.
To that end, I have never met a depressed or obese person who has complained about having their illness. I've only ever heard them complain when they've tried and failed on numerous accounts to get better. At this point, they need encouragement. You tell a person in recovery to stop complaining, or even give the slightest hint, and you send them back to square one. The person doing the complaining about the obese or depressed person complaining, should take responsibility of their contribution to the illness.