Does anyone know how to help someone who had been suffering from major depression for many years now? I don't have depression but I try to understand it the best I can. I want to do everything I possibly can to help but I'm not sure what to do. My dad has been suffering from depression and I feel like my family isn't putting in enough effort to help so if anything happens to him I feel like it will be partly my fault for not doing enough. I want to help the most that I possibly can but I don't know how to help someone in that situation. I'm there for him. I support him,try to calm him down, talk to him, try to get him to do more things to distract him,etc. I just feel like I could do more. For those of you that have/had depression,what helped you the most?