Why do depressed people push loved ones away?

because they just probably just want to be alone for a while and maybe the love ones are making i worse by trying to help them.

I think when people are depressed we feel like no one understands, can help, or it requires too much effort to be around someone else.

Because they need to know someone cares.Yes, they do feel the need to be alone and cry but they also want the others to try and help them better than they did before.Try and understand them, show them that they are important.

Because they feel that they are sparing their loved ones from their depression. Your first instinct is to just deal with it alone, which of course, can make it worse. Allow those in your life to get close to you and help you.

I feel like people push other away when in that state because they want to be able to figure it out on their own. Sometimes they want to stop others from seeing them in that state, from shame or fear or maybe even worry for their lived ones reactions. I think it's a very painful thing to be alone when depression takes over, but being in that state and having people around you is a different kind of pain and worry that mixes in. We all need help at one point, but part of the path has to be walked alone, sometimes we need to realize ourselves that we need to reach out and ask for help. Until we come to that moment, no amount of outside help can make it to us. Patience is the most important thing, and not giving up until they do take our helping hand is the best we can do.

It is never intentional. It is something that is not understood nor is it meant to be from those who don't suffer for it. They will except your love if you simply show it without taking it personally. They usually will blame themselves before anyone else.

It is simple in my opinion, Depressive people do not love themselves. It is clearly that a person who doesn„t love himself cannot understand how others love him

Because they think that their loved ones dont understand what they are going through and in that case, they are wrong!

I dont know that they always do. Some cling to loved ones but many do push them away. I think the reasons very much depend on the person but some common ones are: that they want to hide how they are feeling inside from someone they care about; that they dont feel they themselves deserve to be loved; that the depression makes any kind of social contact a huge effort and that their energy levels may be very low.

People suffering with depression tend to push people away for many reasons. It may be they feel they don't deserve others presence, it may be that they don't expect to be around very long and want to spare others the heartache. It often simply is the fact that they lack the motivation to do anything, they want to be alone, and to sleep all day due to the lack of dopamine.