if you're not a penguin...shut it - Floating My OWN Boat v.2

You know, I'm not really sure what I was hoping to gain by talking about this. Strangely, I guess I just wanted people to be more open and willing to talk about depression and purely on that level, it failed.
However, why on earth would I be expecting anything different from what has been happening for hundreds of years? Silly me....

In 2000ish I went to my doctor in Calgary and told him that I felt horrible, that I was irritated, fatigued, etc etc and could we figure out what was wrong with me? We ran tests and about a month later he sat me down and told me that he thought I was...

Please understand that I am not actually asking anyone to do this and I'm not slapping anyone on the hand. I've been specifically thinking about these things so that I can talk about them. And, I only speak for myself here but I think if you have a friend...

There's two sides to this question. What am I, the person with the brain cooties, afraid of and what are you - my friends, acquaintances and society in general afraid of?
I think I've always been afraid that people would treat me differently. That people would question or ascribe my choices and decisions to my "problem" and therefore see them as wrong/ba...d/not rational or frivolous. That people would be tentative, afraid...