Mood: On depression

It's kind of weird how you tend to feel better when you get to know someone that has similar problems as you, or even worse. Gives you a feeling that you're not alone. Also, you realize that there's actually more people wearing "happy masks", pretending to be happy when being with friends, while they're actually sad deep under.

Is depression some kind of sickness? I don't know. Some go to the doctor while others don't. But I'm having some doubts on the statistics that say depression is on the rise. There actually should have been more set backs and hard ships years ago, but, like it or not, people are forced to cope with it to survive; there's so many of it that they get used to it. Maybe they have depression, maybe they don't, but who had the money the see a psychiatrist? Who could even afford to whine about it? And since there weren't much psychiatrists nor clinic visits back then, most cases don't get into the records.

Actually, what I'm thinking of is, since people could cope with all the setbacks back then, why can't we now?