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It tends to be a "attention seeking" type of disease. Another reason is that it is a disease that is very easy to fake. It's very difficult to fake cancer etc.. A lot of clinically diagnosed depression is self inflicted. It seems to be widely circumstantial. It can be enviromentally brought on. Depression is a very real disease, and a disease that claims the lives of thousands of people each year through suicide. Even with all the evidence that supports clinical diagnoses of depression, the truth is that millions of Americans suffer from some sort of depression from time to time, and millions of Americans usually recover from it over time and end up doing perfectly well. With that said, a person who speaks of their "clinical depression" as if it was this major, life impacting disease, tends to be suffering from another entirely different disease, which is lonliness.

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