No proper communication within the family
I'm 17 and my family always eats meals together. However, we rarely talk while eating - just dead silence. I try to start conversations but the answers I get are always "okay", "yeah", "fine" and so on. I've tried to talk this over with my family but they keep saying that it's nothing and it's all in my mind. But it's not. I tried to start a conversation again while having lunch today and my younger sister actually told me that "I'm too noisy".
It wasn't always this way. My parents used to chat a lot during lunch back when I was younger. Now it's as if we're just a couple of strangers sitting on the same table.
No amount of prodding in private gets my mom to tell me anything. Same with my dad.
The situation in our house is getting me really depressed and I tell my mom this and she just tells me that there's no such thing as depression in our genes. And so I just shut up.