Why does society romanticise Depression?

Depression is romanticized because people think depression can be taken away if a cute boy tell you he loves you or that you're beautiful, which is not the case.

When you're depressed its dark and deep real thoughts you are having. Romance is dark and intimate and real too. Also, a lot of society doesn't understand depression for what it actually is or how serious it is.

This is a super important question! I was actually just reading a book that had an essay on female pain and how it is sometimes romanticized, and your question reminds me of that (not to say that male pain and pain of individuals who are non binary isn't important too!). I think part of the romanticizing of depression may have to do with how depression is depicted in various art forms. A fair amount of well known artists (from authors to painters) have/had depression, and whether it actually helped their work in some way, I think depression may sometimes be seen as something that fueled their work. Depression can be connected to the concept of catharsis - such as if one cries when they're depressed, and feels a catharsis from crying. While this is tangentially related, I think that catharsis is also by nature romanticized, as it almost has a spiritual element to it. Additionally, society sometimes seems to view depressed individuals as deep, artistic, philosophical - all qualities that can have a romantic element to them. Of course, there is also so much stigma surrounding depression, that some people stigmatize depression instead of romanticizing it. But romanticizing depression isn't helpful either - I would imagine that romanticizing depression can invalidate those suffering from the illness, and perhaps even slow down their treatment and recovery

I believe because that gives other people the chance to 'save' a depressed person, with love, even though thats not something that can be done or must be done.

All strong emotions can be romanticized, not just depression. Depression as a mental condition, however, has a history of glamor because it provided an outlet for members of the upper (and later the middle) class to express the pain and frustration they felt at society's harsh rules and conditions, without actually suffering the consequences of rebelling against it. A lord's daughter couldn't escape her arranged marriage to the scary 50-year-old man that had been her family's enemy the year before, but she could suffer the illness of melancholy, and as long as she bore heirs people would generally understand if she wasn't well enough to come out and be social most of the time. The poor experienced depression too, of course, but they were forced to go to work and pretend to be well if they wanted to live. The romanticization of depression was also a response to industrialism, a resistance to the idea that people are just robots in an assembly line--it asserted the realness and essential humanness of feelings, it asserted the right of people to feel sad feelings instead of putting on a fake placating smile, and it called attention to the way that society was damaging people.

Society likes to romanticize depression because it's basically a way to make a character a damsel in distress without actually having to put effort into putting them in real, physical danger. A lot of people (authors included) also think that they can pull off making depression look like a "personality trait." It's basically just making a concept of "That person really needs to be saved" and then giving the damsel in distress all the qualities of depression. They think it's interesting, and quirky, and that you can easily put it on someone and make them a more interesting person.

In my opinion, people who romanticise Depression often haven't experienced it themselves or studied it. In reality there is nothing glamorous about depression, it feels like drowning and trying to keep ashore with support.

Society romanticizes the idea of being lonely and they don't understand what it actually feels like to be depressed. I think they that someone will come and save you and make everything go away just by saying I love you.

Depression rates are getting fairly higher in these days' society. Most of the world is about exploiting, anyway. Seek what is "popular", whatever that is, try to make the best out of it. Depression has become just another way to sell people something.

Because it is seen as a trend by some people who haven't expierienced it. I can tell you though, the important people probably don't.