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I've studied mental illness formally and suffer from some mild clinical depression myself. It's my sincere opinion that people simply can't understand mental illness unless they have properly studied it or have direct personal experience (including by proxy). It just doesn't fit into the uninitiated's picture of the world.

That being said, although the article doesn't show a deep understanding of mental illness, the things he mentions in the last paragraph can help ameliorate depression. One of the big problems is that it's really hard for a mentally ill person to motivate themselves to try to fix things - mental illness is really insidious; even if you know you have an illness, you may not realise you're having an episode.