Why does nobody believe I'm depressed?

Sometimes people who are depressed try to put on the bravest of facades. We try to seem happy even though we really need help. Not many people know much about depression and other mental illnesses so they don't seem to understand that you could be depressed.

There are still a lot of stigmas around mental health. But there is also a whole wave of knowledge helping to bring light on this matter. Getting informed and sharing those infos can be help both you and those around you to understand depression a little better =)

Depression is such a misunderstood mental illness, people have a hard time understanding something they can't see. It also doesn't help that the word itself is used so often when it shouldn't be that it has almost started to lose meaning, which is terrible because depression is one of the hardest things for a person to go through.

In my experience, my parents just didn't want to believe I was depressed. I guess because they didn't want their daughter to go through the same things they went through, and they fooled themselves into thinking it was mind over matter. Also, most of us depressed people put on a pretty good facade to seem happy and "normal" at school or work, so when people who don't understand depression hear that we have it, they're likely to just brush it off. Which is dangerous for obvious reasons.

Depression, nowadays has been often been misunderstood for just feeling sad. Try explaining to the people how you're feeling and tell them about your depression, make it clear that it is very difficult to be depressed constantly. But also, if they don't believe you. You don't need them, you want to bring positivity into your life, so try blocking out all the little negative things.

Unfortunately, it's usually those who have never been through it, that do not understand. People who have never been depressed find it difficult to believe the condition exists because they have never experienced it first hand, but once you have, you get it.

Because you manage to function in public and when you are alone everything breaks down... its like a mask wearing all day to disguise your feeling

It could be because you are acting happy in order to hide your depression, or maybe it could be because these people are, or have been depressed themselves and think that other people can't possibly be as depressed as them

Some people are still scared and not really accepting that depression is a thing today, it's a big issue.

some people just don't want to believe it because they don't want you to be going though that so they think if they don't believe it its not true.