Why can't people understand Depression?

Because it is not just an emotion, they are involved a lot of feelings, emotions, thoughts, and is different to everybody

Many people can't understand depression simply because they have not experienced it. If someone asked me to understand what schitzophrenia is, I would be able to research and learn about it. However, I would be unable to truly understand as I have not experienced it. Preferable to me, is a friend who will sit with me in the darkness and tell me they will see the light for me, since I am unable...rather than ask me to explain depression so they can understand it. In other words, I would rather have someone who cares hold space with me while I find my way out, than someone who thinks they understand and can 'save' or 'fix' me. Depression is difficult to understand, even for someone like me who has struggled with it for over 4 decades. How can I expect someone who hasn't experienced it to understand it? Let's be gentle with ourselves and with others :)

People can't understand depression because they think it's cautious like the flu. No one truly knows or understands the hurt and pain that you go through expect you. It hurts when people just think that your just overreacting and it pushes you over the edge. Depression is not something you can fake or something you do to get attention actually we try so hard for people not to see us down so that they don't try to help because we don't want to be helped.

There are a lot of reasons, honestly. Pure miseducation or just lack of education can make them not understand, but some people just don't want to hear others out. Be patient. The longer you maintain that depression is a real and important thing, the more likely they are to open their ears.

It is incredibly difficult for people to put themselves in other people's shoes. Someone whose life is going great, or someone who has always worked really hard, have a hard time seeing things through the eyes of someone with Depression. They simply lack empathy - which isn't a bad thing - it's just like how I lack the ability to play the drums. Often they try to be sympathetic, but it's very frustrating for them when they tell you they're sorry you're having a tough time and then you don't immediately perk up just because someone paid attention to you. It can be really, really frustrating to have anyone tell you that you need to just snap out of it, or try harder, or stop feeling sorry for yourself, but I think it's a real skill to be able to brush off not just those comments, but those people. Someone who really cared about you wouldn't make you feel even worse for having a mental illness.

Because things like that are hard to understand uness you have truely gone through it yourself. Through all the pain and hurt.

For people who haven't gone through it themselves, the idea that you have this darkness in your mind that attacks you, and that you can't get away from, is very strange to them. Even if they are taught about these mental illnesses, it is still very difficult for them to find empathy, when they don't have experience.

People often can't understand depression because they haven't experienced it themselves, which unfortunately is usually what it takes for someone to understand it, is for them to experience it first hand.

People are not going to understand. They could try. But truly just try and make it through the day and tell someone who has gone through it for help.

It is difficult for those who do not know what it feels like and they believe that it is something that people cannot have since they do not have it themselves.

Many people find it difficult to understand something they can't actually see. Depression is such an individual illness that it's hard for others to realize the reasons why someone is suffering. I think it also depends on how we ourselves react to certain situations because the death of a loved one might cause a depression for someone but not for the other. To understand depression we need to see it with the eyes of those who suffer!

Because they have be conditioned to believe that depression is a choice or a lifestyle or a sadness and it so much more and so different than that.

If they haven't experienced it then they might not understand it. They don't see how you process things through your mind. They can feel like you over react with stuff. Just explain