This is an awful mindset that prevents people from seeking help they need. The only prerequisite to having depression is having depression. If you can keep up a daily routine, that’s good, but it doesn’t mean you don’t have depression.
The idea that you can just exercise yourself out of depression can make people suicidal. They think if other depressed people can do it and I can’t, then I’m hopeless. The reality is that depression can be minor or severe and those are such wildly different experiences they might as well be different disorders.
This is an awful mindset that prevents people from seeking help they need. The only prerequisite to having depression is having depression. If you can keep up a daily routine, that’s good, but it doesn’t mean you don’t have depression.
The idea that you can just exercise yourself out of depression can make people suicidal. They think if other depressed people can do it and I can’t, then I’m hopeless. The reality is that depression can be minor or severe and those are such wildly different experiences they might as well be different disorders.