Well, I disagree. Humbly. My childhood was upper middle class, and I did have a choice to respond to issues differently, but I chose to depress.

There are other choices One could make - I could depress over being homeless and destitute, having been targeted most My life - pretty "beaten" here. It's not that One has to do things that make the abuse (if there is any) worse. One can choose stoicism, or other passive approaches - and Many do.

But it is a choice.

And humbly again, given all I have focused on - some things for many years - and the failure to "manifest" it (I can't tell You how I have focused on having a place to live and money to afford it over the past 18 years!!!), I place low probability that We manifest anything at all but Our behavior.