To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.
Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.
With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.