Depression is one thing that just blows me away, and I've only learned more about it in the last few years. The only time I've observed it was postpartum depression, and it was just scary as hell. Watching a completely healthy, strong and confident individual fall into a dark hole, completely irrationally was an extremely difficult situation that just had me feeling helpless. You can see it tearing this person apart, and there's so little you can do, aside from talking, and they don't want to do that.
I'm embarrassed to say that I had an incredibly ignorant view of depression before I witnessed it first hand, and that's why I try to not get too upset when I see that ignorance in others. Education is incredibly important in this field, and getting angry at ignorance doesn't actually help anything. Although that image DA showed in the first post really does piss me off, because I have to assume Robin Williams' suicide is what spurred the posting of it.
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