I been depressed since I was a young stuppa little child. I will be depressed until the day I die unless something really big chances. With people I often hide it because when people know someone has depression they go out of their way to make that depression worse. Online on the other hand I can freely share that information, because for the most part I keep real life and my online life separate. Also I dont have to interact with any of you fucks! Back when I was using some mainstream platforms like reddit I would get messaged with sillycide prevention and other mental health resources, told I just need to lift myself up by the bootstraps, and other bullshit. Luckily its less of an issue on the indie web but when talking to people in real life or on mainstream web about this and they act like they understand because they been sad before though they word it as depression. Short term being sad is at least as bad if not worse than being depressed though they were still sad for X amount of time because of X event. Having depression is more like constantly feeling yicky inside and out, being emotionally dull, not wanting to do anything... long term with any moment that isnt like this being the exception not the norm. The cause being a constant always happening in the background often outside of control. Comparing sadness to depression is like comparing a injury that heals well to chronic pain. Its insulting that most people see them as the same. Go fuck yourself.