Yes, you can certainly get some acknowledgement of this from me, having lived it and researched it for many years (and also having succeeded in overcoming it by accepting this position).<p>Sure the propensity to feel depressed in response to a given experience may differ from person to person, but it is a product of evolution, and is far too common to be pathologised as a &quot;disorder&quot;.<p>We have this assumption that a materially privileged life in a rich society should entitle us to a life of happiness, and any divergence from that is an &quot;illness&quot;.<p>This ignores the fact that there is much that is unhealthy about modern western society, and the proliferation of depression among seemingly well-off people in rich societies is a natural reaction to that.