 [ Symptoms ] how do you help someone understand depression when they do not belive depression exists  i have suffered from depression on and off through the years diagnosed with clinical depression at age 12 i have been having a difficult time lately and have recently started taking an antidepressant my husband does not believe or understand anything about depression he thinks you should be able to just shake it off and move on how do i get him to understand that depression is real and i need his support to get better [ Disease ] if you have doubts then you can get investigations done like cxr sputum culture sputum acid fast bacilli smear nucleic acid amplification tests done to confirm the diagnosis hope this helps regards