Depression culture is the byproduct of our system, failing to provide the correct tools to the youth that allows them to develop their cognition, disabling their ability to recognize situations and habits that will get them to a point in life that is undesirable. 
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I believe 90% of depression is actually just normal ''life issues''. People with depression are pathetic! It seems like everyone thinks that having depression is somehow something to be proud of/define yourself by. Well, it's not. If you have depression you are fúcked up and it's not normal. You need to fix it.
There are people out there who think depression is not a medical illness and it’s something that you can just wish away, and I'm always like "It is a malfunction of your brain? If by any chance, you have control over your brain, reprogram yourself, man!"
I mean depression sucks, people try to deal with it and hide it from others. Depression bites them from within and then there are people who think that the one is faking it up! I apologize to them, but I totally wanna throw these àssholes out of a plane with no parachute! It's always easy to say but once they're in their shoes, they'll know what actually depression is.
By on me, one of my friends suffered from this mental illness when I was 15 y/o. Neither he would talk to anyone nor come out of his room. He would go around talking to his parents that he don't wanna live anymore. This mental illness really breaks you down, it makes you wanna go die. Really depression is one of the worst situations that one may go through his entire life.