misleading prevalence rates, debates, "rants"

I wasn't sure where to make this thread and topic but i thought of making it here since it's a depression forum and many people have a commorbid diagnosis of depression so there might be some people who may be willing to offer some relevant feedback if we are relating to the points in the same manner and opinion. I have not been able to get much feedback for other topics elsewhere so i thought of opening up on here.

So one thing i noticed is that mental health prevalence rates in general are misleading and just flat out wrong in other areas, this has just been my experience in real life but people are welcome to share how their experiences have been. This topic was gonna talk about various topics, however, I did want to go ahead and explain why i made this thread, as someone who suffers from clinical depression themselves, I've grown to be more physically and emotionally fragile, vulnerable, conflicted and disabled by my condition.

As a result of all this and just trying to seek help in general, individual therapists and group wise, I've learned that not only have i felt truly alone a lot in my suffering, but also have developed more frustration and anger from hearing other people's viewpoints on things that not only weren't realistic and true, but also biased and overgeneralized, while they were able to connect to each other and get along in the process.

Without getting into too much detail at first, I thought of just bringing up one point at a time and talk about in a more slower and stable manner. The first thing is Unipolar depression vs Manic depression. What i have researched has shown Unipolar depression as being more common than manic depression, and not only that, but also they say it's also more common in clinical settings, however with my experience of being in outpatient and clinical settings, group therapies and what not for about 2 1/2 years, The people I've seen the most were manic depressives mostly, and older aged people, 30+ and older usually, ( I'm age 24 ).

Another thing i noticed is people talking about unipolar depression vs manic depression in another thread and people saying unipolar depression is easier to treat or not as bad as manic depression which in my opinion, is not true. As someone who has been prescribed many psychiatric medications for depression/anxiety, etc, and suffering from terrible side effects wihtout anything them doing good for me, one of which caused me to end up in the hospital due to convulsions, and also me putting myself in actual real clinical open world settings, I can assure you that the manic depressive folks i met were all being medicated and were doing well or getting better, and even without factoring the present, their stories and experiences of their disorder of the past and now hardly captures anything qualitatively impairing, they talked about many rich things about their lives they once had and still even have, how they worked or used to work or still am, where with me, I never had any of those things.

I have put myself into several different group settings, from many different places of many different topics, and I rarely met people with unipolar depression that were young as i( young adults ), and even if did, i didn't exactly relate to them which is another point i was gonna make which talks about some contradictory sources of personality disorders, one of which I'm also diagnosed with.

My heart goes out to you. No matter what type of depression you may have, it's still many of the same symptoms occurring. And if you are not getting positive results from the medications, then it's very hard. I'm sorry that others are saying that their depressive episodes are worse because I believe it's an individual thing. Each suffers in their own way. Some suffer worse than others. That's true on that. Depression is not something everyone understands either. But I do know of what I call the "pain" of depression. I hope that you find something, anything that a good doctor can give you to make it go away and you become stable. Let us know what happens. Hugs, if wanted.