"The truly depressed are proud of how happy they can get away with being in spite of their depression"

Not true of all of us! I may have written some clichedly awful poetry about never finding love and spent most of my teen years whining about something or other, but my chemistry was genuinely screwed up at that point and I sincerely wish that someone could have figured that out sooner instead of just assuming I was being melodramatic for no good reason!