Why do people think clinical depression is fake?
There is a dirty little secret that many people publicly manipulate the social welfare system to propogate a fraud in order to get on Govt. cash disability programs for decades, it's called having the vague illness of 'depression'. (Maybe it's a more serious untreated denied 'paraniod schizophrenia', or some other murderous anti-social mental thoughts that many cowards, gun-nuts, and serial killers will eventually be discovered after some murderous tragedy occurs in our 11 o'clock news. FIRST, these frauds obsessively public boast of on their Blogs about this 'depression' because they have the urge to feel superior to ALL others due to some personal fake 'superior' I.Q. or intellect. Does this sound healthy or sane ??!! NO. Some 'fakers' have been caught by Govt. investigators. Then they sell their homes quickly and leave their hometowns. 'Fakers' will hide from new public scrutiny in going 'underground' living in new communities, mobile home parks, or Indian reservations. Kinda sounds like the actions of guilty child molesters or other criminals huh?) Those same folks are taking legitament social public assitance moneys away from those who really need that income and causing a waste of schrinking Govt. public funds.
Some people use it to gain the sympathy and pity of others since their lives are so empty. Some people suffer and get out of their depression with being active with medical help. Others use this reason as a 'gravy train' to help them through life on their own selfish terms. 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 abject lonliness. They often are milking the system.
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 in a small limited number of cases, 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.
