I don't have bouts of times where I can't get out of bed or find the will to live. I'm generally very hyper, quick to laugh and all around really goofy and always seeing the bright side of things... so how the hell am I supposedly CHRONICALLY depressed? I experience some depression flares here and there but they generally go away within the day or a few hours, last I checked chronic depression tends to last *days*. Why do my doctor's keep throwing this very serious diagnosis when I know it's not as bad as it is?