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Getting to the top of Mt. Everest is simple. You just have to climb and keep choosing to climb. It’s difficult though - people have died trying. If someone says, “you just have to climb,” they are not wrong, but it ignores all the details and nuance of what climbing involves and why it is very difficult. It requires a huge amount of training, logistics, planning, contingencies, equipment, support, etc.

“Choosing happiness” while having depression is similar. It’s a “simple” action but incredibly difficult. People die trying.

I think it’s worth keeping that in mind when people say annoying things like, “well you just have to choose to be happy.” They are correct in theory but they don’t know that their bunny hill is your Mt. Everest. When someone doesn’t take the time to see and know you, they don’t see the huge amount of training, logistics, planning, contingencies, equipment, and support involved.

They don’t know that you could die if you don’t take care of those things and just choosing to be happy can make depression worse when trying to do it in a forceful way, because the failures to execute this “simple” thing add up. It makes a depressed person feel worthless because they can’t do this thing that is pitched as an easy action.

When you want to tell someone to just choose happiness, think about how this very message, heard over and over, can be a factor in their decision to end their life. The feeling that they can’t just snap their fingers and cure their depression with a simple choice to be happy, unlike everyone else, who apparently, can.