I am taking a language course via zoom (there's one other student in the class) and on Monday I asked the teacher to reschedule saying that I wasn't feeling well. In fact I could feel myself suffering a depressive bout and I knew that I would not have been able to pay attention to the lesson. I don't think I was lying or anything because mental health is still health, and in that sense I really didn't feel well enough to attend the lesson. We rescheduled to Wednesday no problem.

At the start of the class my teacher and student ask me if I'm feeling better and I say yes. They ask me if I had a cold, I say no. They ask if I was hungover (in a joking way). I decide to use my vocabulary to say I felt depressed, and immediately my teacher starts tutting and telling me she doesn't believe in depression. That her friends have told her that depression is a clinical disorder but that she thinks that people need to be in control of their emotions (or some BS like that). I'm pretty speechless at this point and am only able to summon "well I felt like I wouldn't be able to concentrate on Monday". And she drops it saying she understands, but I feel like she's upset that I changed her plans over what she probably thinks is nothing.

But I'm just so shocked that she SAID that to me. Even if you don't believe depression is a clinical disorder (a lot of people feel this way, sadly), why would you tell that to someone who is telling you they feel depressed? It left me feeling shitty for the rest of the class and after, and I just need to spill this story now to strangers on Reddit.