Three responses to that...
Don't worry you don't need to curse me -- I know that impossible numb yet excruciating pain upon the soul. You can feel your mouth crackle from dryness but cannot leave your bed to walk nine feet to get a glass of water. You consider pissing in a mason jar rather than leave your room. You're beyond tears, and wish you were back there.
A quote from my journal when I was in this mental abyss:
If I hanged myself in my wardrobe, my body wouldn't be discovered until the rent was due or someone complained about the smell.
What is clinical depression to you? I recommend not calling it depression or saying it's an illnesses because studies have shown time and time again that such a perspective worsens depression and leads to higher relapse rates back into the swamp of sadness.
I rather tell people that their problem isn't biological. Their depression isn't due to a shit brain but due to shitty shit things going on in their life for one reason or twenty. I agree with their assessment of their situation -- it's shit. They feel shit from that shit.
My apologies.
I can absolutely see how my comment can appear to be dismissive of those who have what is known as MDD or clinical depression. My comment reads like the ignorant "depression isn't real, you're making excuses."
Depression is very real. When I say "work like a motherfucker" my choice of brutal, unpleasant and obscene language wasn't because I have a weak vocabulary. The only way out is to work. Out run the black dog, don't pet it. It might go away. It might not.
When you are in that abyss the last thing you need to hear is to get over it. That's not what I am saying. I am saying that I know it's hard, really hard, but you have to fight. I know you are trying hard, and like a jerk I'm telling you to try harder. Not because I think you aren't trying, but because you are and you can and you will do it. Your suffering is real. Lance the melancholic boil, yes it stinks and stings but god damn it, that's what it will take. It's brutal, unpleasant and obscene... and you can fucking do it because you are one tough motherfucker.