This picture tweeted by The Academy (Oscars) about Robin Williams is beyond poignant:

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65. You mean "certain kinds of depression"... right?

Because obviously the people who do understand what depression really is all seem to agree with me.

And quoting additional experts doesn't change that those experts are still talking about different people than we are talking about.

Nope. That's just your current spin avoid admitting the error. Nowhere in my posts here did I restrict my comments to specific types of depression.

Instead of searching for experts to try and "win", try understanding instead.

I think the better plan is for you to stop pretending that you understand and speak for all depressed people... or all of a particular flavor of depressed people. You speak only for yourself. If you're no more likely to take your life because of the image... great. I'm happy. But that doesn't change the fact that it was innapropriate for the Academy to post it.

What I said... and what the experts apparently all agree on... is that the use of that image is innapropriate because it increases the liklihood of additional suicides. You decided that was calling depressed people morons (and now it's aparenly only some depressed people who aren't morons).

Chances are at least one of your friends or family are suffering from clinical depression, and you could be an enormous help to them.

As I stated earlier... this isn't "chances are". I have more than one relative and a handful of friends who have struggled with this beast over the years... including losing that struggle. I've spoken to them and their doctors at some length. It isn't a coincidence that my take on this matches that of the experts. You were perfectly willin to call them liars and tell me that that wasn't really what they were thinking.

Do you realize how far off base you've been in this thread? You really should delete your posts. I'd be happy to delete mine if you really think this is about "winning" for me.