Why do people have to post dickish comments like this when there is any discussion of depression? It should have been obvious from my comment that I was referring to life events such as stressful jobs, bad relationships, etc. and not traumatic events over which you have no control.
I understood and agree with what you intended to say, but perhaps "life events" may have been a bit ambiguous, and some people tend to define "depression caused by life events" as depression caused by tragedies.
Because people insist on posting dickish comments like "maybe they should just fix their problems" and then retreat into whiny complaints that they obviously didn't mean this for anyone who it didn't apply to, they just felt it was useful to poison the discussion by making uselessly broad comments.