No it's not. Again, im not shitting on the suffering that people with depression go through, but if we're talking about the context of the original comment, whic places it among the world's major problems, i'm sorry but it as a clinical condition just doesn't compare. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide live in grinding situations of misery that are caused by changeable conditions of their economic and social lives. These are people who would either be normally adjusted or at least not die early if their circumstances weren't the case. Thee mortality levels among them are much greater and objectively more of a problem than those caused by clinical depression, which in the last 23 years has directly killed nowhere near as many people [1] as say, malaria alone, or malnutrition do.
>It's something you really shouldn't pretend to understand outloud.
The only way by which you can get people to sympathize with your beliefs is by having them understand them, and the only way by which people might come to agree with you is if they do exactly that: ask questions out loud and debate the matter. Nothing should be outside that.
Many people have many more hardships than I do, but it doesn't mean they feel anywhere near as unhappy as I do.
I don't know where to begin trying to explain it so I'm not even gonna try.
It's something you really shouldn't pretend to understand outloud.
I've faced serious hardships and lived terrible events. I've also enjoyed periods of living in great locations with every material thing I desired.
I felt MUCH happier during the society-accepted hardships than the latter.