I also experience depression with no apparent reason and begin to think that others do not want me around and would be better off without me.

There's still a lot of stigma and people who think you should just "snap out of it" or not dwell on the past, as if that would fix the problem, but that's simply not the case. My mom is starting to come around, but it was really difficult growing up with her when depressed since she held some of these beliefs.