Accept that you are on your own, your experience of life, even tho other ppl's opinions may change your outlook, is completely unique to you, meaning u r in complete solitude, you could never get any1 to understand depression, because you cannot share ure emotions with ppl, good or bad, cuz you are alone. those around you will die, or move away and time will make them but a blip in ure memory as will every other experience you have up until the point you kick the bucket. Instead of describing depression as a single thing, try and look at why ure depressed, you feel alone? well what made you think you weren't in the first place? what changed that made you go from thinkin you were important to ppl, and had something to live for, to makin the decision that its not? And if you can't deal with being alone, and you don't like accepting that you don't mean a fat lot to whatever the point of existance is, then ure best bet is to kill ureself, but I believe the only reason that its an epidemic in the 'developed' countries, is because we're fed from a very early age, bollox, about self-worth and self-importance that you are put here to drive towards sumfin (usually a successful career and a loving wife with 2.4 kids, picture white pickett fences) but that is not life, that is a fuckin tv dreamland, and it doesn't happen, life is savage, completely and utterly confusing and this scares some ppl cuz they have the delusion that they know what to do in life to be happy (cuz they are surrounded by ppl claiming that they're all happy), why things are right and wrong etc.... and the truth is you don't, but you'd rather delude ureself in to thinking you have a grasp on it, when in reality you are as at a whim to whatevers driving you as a pollen grain bein carried on the air currents, you have to deal with ure shit as it comes, and you can't plan for this. Depression or a fear bought on by the realisation you're insignificant?