Can depressed ppl be harvested?

[rva_jeremy]

not just an unwillingness to be one self. at times your means to be you is limited, or it's unwise to tottaly be yourself. (that's how I lost my license, some jobs, etc)

I dunno, man, seems like two sides of the same coin. We all know people who refuse to be anybody but themselves and, while they may suffer for it, they also don't get depressed and sullen per se. They strike a different tradeoff, more or less accepting the crappy situation and the self they are.

Don't get me wrong: I take your point, and I certainly don't blame anybody for not wanting to suffer, but is it not typical of depression to take a situation and construe it to be without choice, without hope of being otherwise? The question to me is not the outer situation but the inner attitude that occludes the infinite possibilities of the moment. If we're just talking about outer situations being suboptimal, that's not depression or even necessary for depression.