A common misconception is that anyone who is suffering from depression looks depressed. Some of us can look very 'normal' and can appear to be fine, but are suffering greatly.

that you are L A Z Y!
That is sooo wrong. So very far from the truth. I rebel against it!

"Get over it!" "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!" I don't know how many times I've heard that. We can't just get over it; it's an illness. Maybe it can ebb and flow, but we can't just pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and get over it, just like we can't get over diabetes!

That people think you are faking your illness 🥲

From years ago the misconception that depression wasn't an illness that it was more or less made up.