29 - can you ever "snap out of it"?

There's been conversations on Twitter about what it means to "snap out of depression" lately, and the implications of it and how tiring/ableist it can sound has weighed on my mind a lot. Especially in wake of my deep depressive episode that lasted for a good while (a month plus, even) which made me think about my life up until now, living with this for more than 10 years as I had. "You have to snap out of it someday, no one but yourself can save you" is frankly terrible advice, in my perspective. But from my personal experience, it's bad advice not just because it assumes that anyone with chronic depression that comes from multiple uncontrollable variables could simply "snap out of it" — to me, it's also because the "snapping out" part is involuntary. Live long enough to survive a few suicide attempts & a long period of depression, with or without medication and support, and one day something will just snap. One day you wake up and you think "i'm so fucking sick of this. i don't want…