I agree completely with all of these things said. To be honest, not many people in my life know how depressed I am. I guess I hide it well, but that gets tiring. I don't talk about it because I know people will respond in the ways you have all mentioned. I once told my father years ago and he said "well, why do you think you're depressed?" Like I just woke up one day and decided I wanted to be depressed. I found it even more ridiculous because he himself sees a psychologist, and his mother and sisters also suffered from depression. I never said anything to him again. It is too difficult to explain to someone who has never really experienced it.