By continuing to argue this you will be siding with SG. Do you really want that?
Yes
Really?
Still yes.
Siding with him doesn't bother me, if he's right. He rarely is, of course. But even I can recognise that he sometimes is.
I know that there is much much more to it than that, I was just pointing out the gaps in your argument by posing a similar argument style.
There are no gaps. My argument is universal, always and everywhere since the beginning of time til the end of time.
It's a simple argument. Most things in life really are very simple. People just overcomplicate them, and then declare themselves experts to validate their own existence.
So, here it is, one more time. If you lie to someone for years about how great they are, and one day they go out into the big wide world and they discover that common consensus is that they really aren't so great after all, depression will logically follow.
It's the disconnect with what they feel to be true, and the obvious irrefutable reality.
It really is as simple as that.
Of course, no psychiatrist will accept that, because then they'd be out of a job. They need to pretend it's more complicated to justify their existence. Same with Lawyers, and Accountants and all other professions.