It would be nice if the blog post was more aware of their situation vs the situation for actually [clinically] depressed people. The word depressed does not have a firm meaning in society. This benefits the blogger in that their feats sound impressive and make depression not seem to be such a big deal.
I don’t see how this is gate keeping.
Because you don't get to decide whether someone is clinically depressed.
With all due respect, invalidating someone else's lived experience and telling someone that did something that worked for them that they shouldn't share it because it doesn't fit your definition of "suffering that much" is, quite literally, gatekeeping.
I said it should be clearer that the person is in a rut.
To give an extreme example, if the person said they had [high level] autism for a few months and did this stuff to get better. I’d think it is fair for people to get offended at that.
What is this, the depression Olympics? Give me a break.
She does not carefully say she possibly was not that depressed. At no point did she think how would [clinically] depressed people feel with this written and equivocating her experience with theirs.
I wrote in a sibling reply, there would likely be universal negative response if she said she had [high level] autism [for a few months] and did stuff to fix it. Which would be the correct response.