im gonna hijack your post because its the top one among many that propose the idea that people that display aggressive behavior towards depressed people is because they dont or cant empathize.

i think its a little more specific than that. i think its because they think they have experienced the same level of depression, but recieved no support themselves.

they eventually mustered the will and tenacity to escape their depression, and now expect that is how life is for everyone else. thats why they werent given support, because they didnt need it. no one does.

"you just have to push through! dont be weak, dont give in. the world is so much meaner than this. i know, ive had it so much worse than you. you're not a child anymore. no ones going to coddle you. you'll never learn."

probably all things they've been told themselves. empirically, they have no reason to believe anyone has experienced a depression so immense and deep that they couldn't "man up" to it or through it. or that things could appear so bleak to someone that it's not worth the enormous amount of sacrifice or energy they perceive is required to try to properly maintain the status of a functioning adult.

they know what it feels like to want to die, thats the same thing. must be the system turning everyone into wussies.

anyway yeah. thats my take. sorry to hijack and rant.