Okay, I'm gonna stop you there. Mental illness does not discriminate and just because it might not seem like someone doesn't have anything to be 'depressed' about doesn't mean they aren't still struggling. It is not your job to judge people on how they respond to their mental illness.

As a counselor, you are gonna deal with a lot of different people. Some are gonna have a lot of great things going on and they'll still be struggling. You need to reevaluate and figure out how to be more open.

There's a difference between being blunt and stigmatizing mental illness. You're, currently, stigmatizing mental illness and implying that someone else is handling it wrong. That's not your place.

I'm blunt with some of my clients. I have to be but I don't judge them for their choices and the way they are coping. It's not my place to do that. It's my place to support them and help them get linked to all the appropriate services.

You said you won't talk to your clients like this and that implies that you know it's not an appropriate response. Why do you think it's okay to post this here when we have different users with varying degrees of mental illness? Users that could easily be negatively impacted by this just like many of the clients you'll work with.