So your point is not that everyone has difficulties. . . it's that yours are the superior difficulties.
I've stated my point directly in my comments. I've never said my point is that "everyone has difficulties" nor implied that. That's a very general and vague statement. I've made the specific point that we shouldn't compare mental illness to physical conditions and say or imply physical conditions are easier, better or preferable.
I also clearly laid out how we shouldn't do the opposite, by giving an example of how a thread that does the exact thing this one does, but swapping the two subjects around, would be a false representation of the type of depression that tons of people here are suffering with, and based off of stereotypes instead of reality.
I specified cancer in my comment you originally responded to and criticized. You moved the bar.
I included your comment with 4 other comments, as examples of people stating that physical conditions were preferable/better in various ways. Your comment wasn't any sort of discussion about cancer, you could have listed any other disease there and the point would have been the same. I also didn't write anything about that comment, I wrote about the second quote I included from you.
In my fantasy it is diagnosed.
I am terribly sorry to hear that.
No offense meant, but I don't actually care if you're sorry to hear that; that's not the reason I typed all that out. It was to further explain my point and why this matters for the people who actually live with this in real life. It's not a fantasy. If you're going to have fantasies that include real-life suffering which you've never experienced and have no understanding of, simply keep them in your head.
I don't see what stereotype I pushed other than 'people with physical disabilities deserve compassion and tend to get it more often than people with solely mental dissabilities.' I really don't see how it is damaging.
You've said nothing at all about people with physical disabilities deserving compassion. Unless you're referring to the comment where you said we get pitied, and "pity is nice"; this might come as a shock, but people with disabilities just want to be treated with basic respect like anyone else, and that includes not being pitied.
I don't have the energy to go into the wide-spread effects of disability stereotypes in society. In general, though, when it's a subject you have no experience with and no education on, it's good to remember that the people who actually have lived experience with it might know what they're talking about.
It seems to me that you brushing off people who are stuck in home due to extreme anxiety you are doing exactly what people are complaining about in this thread. Your entire point is that we shouldn't compare not because comparison is bad, but because physical disabilities are so objectively more serious and difficult.
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NEETs are not related to the subject of this thread… this really feels like grasping at straws. You said that you wanted to be one and separately specified that "some" NEETs are NEETs due to anxiety, clearly acknowledging that people can be one for multiple reasons.
I think you know I wasn't talking about people with anxiety, and I've literally said in my first comment no one should make a thread like this saying they wish they had anxiety instead of depression, because that would be insulting to a person with anxiety. In my very first comment, I brought up anxiety and was talking about it as something that should be considered just as serious/equal to anything else, so I don't think your argument has legs to stand on here.
I've stated my point already and explained that the comparison is the issue. It's unnecessary and easily avoidable, and when it's a topic that affects many on this site, it's really not asking much to just avoid it. I'm exhausted, and I don't want this conversation to go around in circles, so unless there is something new or relevant in the discussion to move it forward, I will wish you a good day/night.