Originally Posted by
Falaras
As someone who has pretty terrible depression (as Spicyryan can attest) that's honestly not entirely true, or false. How you frame your mind is very important and can greatly affect your mood even in the worst of depressive states. I can easily make my depression worse if I go trolling suicide threads on 4chan or depressing subreddits, and I can make it better by attempting to do things that make me happy. This isn't always true, sometimes you are just so depressed that nothing can make you happy, but for many people it is true. The depressive cycle is a lot of "I'm depressed -> I do nothing/something bad -> I get more depressed". Now a lot of the time my original depressive states come completely out of no where and have no correlation with mood or anything, that's definitely the disease, it's just that motivation and frame of mind can have a huge affect on dealing with it when it happens.