I am bi-polar. I've had "depression" for 20 years. I'm on 6 medications. I've had to deal with friends and family telling me to "snap out of it" for so long I could just scream. It's not something a person just snaps out of. In my case it's both biological and from the environment I was brought up in. When I found my birth family two years ago I found out that all of siblings (on both sides) were either bi-polar/and or had depression, anxiety, and/or agoraphobia. It is a chemical imbalance in the brain, not something that a person can just snap out of...