Why do people tell depressed individuals to 'grow up', is depression like trix a!

Why do people tell depressed individuals to 'grow up', is depression like trix and for kids?

I guess they wonder whether the person is truly suffering from clinical depression, or perhaps doctors have told them the person isn't really depressed?

Everyone has things going on which make them sad, angry, depressed- but they don't talk about it openly. Most of us realize that everyone has issues, an try not to bring others around them down.

There are billions of people in the world who aren't happy with something- that doesn't constitute depression. Life is full of good and bad experiences, we just can't get stuck dwelling on the bad ones when they happen.

It's like going along riding a bike- if a child hits the curb, falls off and scrapes his knee, he might sit there crying for hours. An adult who fell off his bike would realize that yes it hurts, but after a minute they dust themselves off and continue on their way. After all, the time spent crying isn't doing anything to change what happened, and it's taking time away from doing more enjoyable things that don't involve sitting at a curb :)

But clinical depression is a more serious problem (think falling off the bike and having two broken legs), so people in that category need more than a little encouragement to beat it. But depression definitely can be beaten!