Please butt out if you have nothing constructive to say on the subject please. on topic.. I have my own views on 'depression', probably because the fact that I've never met anyone who I think has had proper depression or never experienced it. The past month has seen two of my close friends been signed off work for 2 weeks, each time, because of depression. What gets me is that they get basically a fully paid holiday, while we are working our [wagon] off, for most times a worst paycheck at the end of the week. Someone please tell me how to become depressed so that I can do it too please, as I've never actually been like that.