It’s pretty shitty to judge other people’s mental illness, especially when you clearly know nothing about them. There are different forms of depression, many of which will only occur once, or potentially a handful of times. There are others that will reoccur repeatedly, often throughout a persons entire life. The technical term for the latter is Persistent Depressive Disorder or Dysthymia, and it is the condition referred to colloquially by non-therapists as chronic depression. It is not a joke, many of the people who suffer from it will end up committing suicide because they view it as the only possible escape from a condition that undermines their ability to enjoy anything in life, a condition that they likely don’t consider to be curable. And when they state their condition to you using this term, it’s because they’ve almost certainly had dozens of people tell them that it’s something they’ll get over, a phase, and then those people will verbally abuse them when they fail to rec...