Dealing with Depression and Family Misunderstandings

personal hygiene and cleanliness in general have always been the biggest struggles when my depressive episodes occur and it suckssssssss, i luckily have a mom who is extremely understanding and helpful but when my dad was alive he never got it. he dismissed it all and made me feel horrible for it which i later realized because of his own mental illness. but it still is difficult for me to work through not feeling so overwhelmed with guilt

My mom has depression but it's not nearly as bad as mine. She tries to understand it but says things like "just push through" or "I don't understand why you don't just..." I'm sick of explaining it to her. My husband has even started to be like that. Its hard.