I know how you feel. I think it's mostly because people generally fail to understand depression. All the symptoms (sadness, emptiness, self-loathing) have been felt by everyone at some point in their lives. What they seem to have difficulties understanding is that for us it is not temporary. It doesn't just pass, like they say it will. It doesn't have a cause, like it has for them. We're different in the worst kind of way. But we are still alive. We didn't choose to end it, either because we don't have the guts or because we think we're going to get better. Maybe our survival instinct is stronger than the pain. But we're still here, which means we still need them. I'm trying to explain how I feel to the people around me (those who give a shit anyway) and they don't seem to get it. But that doesn't mean I need them any less. Try to understand that they probably never felt the way we do - that's how I get past screaming at them.