I learned many years ago that happiness and depression, not quite but close to the reverse sides of the coin, are basically personality traits with external events having a surface but not deep impact (bad events don't phase happy people and good events don't help the depressed all that much).
Within reasonable limits, we should be allowed to be what we are, and others should be sensitive to this. That said, clinical depression is a disease (maybe an inherited one like a tendency to acne but still a disease) with potentially lethal consequences, no less than cancer or heart disease, and therefore to the extent medical intervention is possible it should be utilized.
Still, short such extremes, it is not necessary or even desirable to be happy all the time. Life is Yin and Yang.
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