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I do see where the campaign was coming from, the overlap is powerful and I understand the intention. A lot of people are getting it, but the rest of the public response is a comment warfare of  "mine is worse" and the actual comment "I would trade my depression for cancer". 

It struck me that the people it's circulating for are the demographic of people who are going to take away that there's a cloth you can throw over talking to sick people as if conditions all somehow the same. I disagree with it on that level, and with the omission that people do in fact talk to people with cancer this way.

I'd love for an ad like this to come out featuring someone with depression hearing "You'll be fine." "There's nothing really wrong with you." "The catastrophising is getting old." and the reveal is that you wouldn't talk to someone with depression this way, cancer is real even if it's stage one.

I'm sorry if you thought I was being reductive of the condition, like your son, several of my depressive episodes have had me requiring supervision, just to be clear that my perspective is not from a place of ignorance. Yourself as someone who has experience with both I'm sure can understand why someone else who also has would see them as entirely different circumstances.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, it's all perspective, and on that note I'm genuinely glad you weren't negatively hit by it like I was.