Family- if you have depression it is hard to get family to understand that depression is an illness and that you can not "catch it" , it is just something that you get, sometimes with or without an underlying cause, as well as being able to be passed down to you through genetics. Some will compare it with the normal type of depression that everyone feels at some point in their lives (like illness, death, losing a job) and expect that you should be able to "get over it soon" and not understand why you have not been able to do that.
If you make the leap and you tell your family that you have a mental illness, unfortunately for some there is often no contact from them, which hurts big time as they are the ones who you need the most during this path that you are on.
If they take it the wrong way, and all contact is lost the person with depression is often not sure how to make contact, as they are ashamed for starters and then wonder if they will be talked to or talked about.
Most times we are talked around and that hurts even more, if you can get one to understand then you have a bonus,,,,a bonus is a big thing for anyone that has depression.They don't come very often so the ones that do make a really huge difference for you in your day to day existence.
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