Hi everyone
Welcome Henry_Henry, Your view on depression is more a personal one, I think.
I live in the middle of nowhere, and right now, I am trapped here through fear and issues related to my past. It's not a choice for me. I dont know anyone in this thread who would choose to feel how they feel.
Silence, I know very well, I have no neighbours I can see, the nearest is three miles away. So I am well used to silence, and to me it screams loudly. It isnt any sort of therapy to sit and think.
As for religion I had one forced on me, not any normal deity either, but one that said I should be punished daily. Five people who's god said I was evil.
It was those five people who had the mental disorder if you ask me.
I fight against my depression every single day, I push at the boundaries all the time. And I know I can safely say for everyone in this thread, that they fight theirs their own way. This is a place to support each other, listen to each other and care for one another. What we don't do is tell anyone else they are wrong, or selfish. Yes we sometimes give each other a kick up the backside, but in a supportive way.
Hugs all round