you don't really get to make that choice, it's not something you can ignore. can't imagine the intensity of post-partum depression though, that's an entirely different ballgame.

for me, on my worst days i still make sure my dog is taken care of. he knows when i'm in a bad way though and will lay in bed with me all day if i ask him to. but my struggle with depression and inability to cope with the world for days at a time is certainly a factor in my decision not to breed.

give a better example.

Don’t have a baby. For the sake of argument I’m going to pretend that answers your stupid ass question, breeder.

Wow. I'm trying to have an honest conversation. Never mind.

Dude. Your angle has been bull**** since your first disingenuous post. I’ll never offer an olive branch to have a sincere conversation with you because you’re a ****ing creepy ass disgusting fraud. Seriously, you’re repulsive.

take it easy

As if his initial post had even a mote of sincerity.

irrelevant

no personal attacks

Depression is an illness, not just sadness or something that someone believes is a logical reaction to their life events, so "we all have problems" doesn't even address the situation at hand. So you've never experienced textbook can't get out of bed depression and that's either because you don't have it, it manifests itself in other ways, or you've developed successful coping mechanisms to distract yourself from your depression (not a dig btw, just laying out the possibilities). Why are other people different? You have different brain chemistry. Our genes predispose us to certain types of behaviours (with epigentetic changes throughout our lives of course) just like the plague killed off people without a certain gene while others survived. The people who died of the plague didn't do so out of a lack of morals, or because of choice or privilege, they died because the inability to survive the plague is coded into their blood.

But he’s so..... ewwwww

You have to be nice to people even if you don't like them.

I thought babysitting my three year old cousin was gonna be the last time I had to tell that to someone.