A few weeks ago I talked about what it's like to live with a depressed person. I want to add to those thoughts.

The occasion for adding to them is a question posed by someone on this web site who wanted to know how to tell others that she wasn't being difficult on purpose; that her behavior is the result of an illness, not unlike many illnesses a person can get, only this one happens to be mental - causing behavioral anomalies, not physiological ones.
Other people were looking at this woman and...