not being able to communicate depression

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Does anyone else have problems communicating certain emotions to others? For example you can't tell others when you are upset or other emotions?

I have always been like this. Certain types of emotions I don't communicate well and often times not at all verbally.

Ive had that for twenty-nine years.

I typically just inquire directly about how people are feeling. "How ya' doin'?" " You doin' okay?" "Are you angry?"

This has been the case my entire life. I think it is both a product of society telling us to be silent and behave, and our own inclination to keep everything to ourselves. I don't typically express much verbally. If I am in great distress I usually hide it very well because society has taught me to do so.

My parents never knew why I was so moody all my life. They never took me to anyone; that was a shameful thing. They threatened to if I kept on like this, as if it was a punishment. Finally, I was diagnosed at age 19 with depression.

I've always felt this way and wrote about it recently here, http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt51518.html

Besides really black and white emotions, I can never describe what I am feeling.