Depression remedies

A friend of mine has terrible depression that is controlled by medication. Even though it is being treated, she still has her good and bad days. It has affected everything in her life and she finds it difficult to work. The problem is made worse by the fact that employer after employer seems to see her problem as a character flaw. Can she claim for some kind of disability insurance? I know people who are on disability for other kinds of chronic illnesses. Does depression count?

I have an attorney and also the name of a hearing judge. It’s just that I’m getting frustrated. I need to fire my attorney and find a new one.

How do I tell my mom/ask her if I can go get checked?
Whenever I think I have something, she just says I’m imagining things or I’m full of it.

But this is serious.
I cut for like…a while.
I think 6 or 7 months?(I stopped, though. I didn’t want to get caught and put in a mental institution or something because last time my mom THOUGHT I was doing cuts{but I wasn’t} she asked if I needed to go to a mental institute.)

I’ve posted a few questions on here,
And been told I either have chronic depression or clinical depression.
I also believe I have social anxiety(runs in the family, along with depression.) and I show all the signs.(Plus my cousin told her therapist about me and how I usually feel and act and stuff, because once I asked my cousin for advice, and her therapist said I probably have severe social anxiety.)
Plus some signs for bipolar.

I spend most of my days sleeping, and/or crying. But I usually cry at night so everyones asleep and they don’t know.(Or like 1-4 in the morning.)
I would rather shove my nose in a book than socialize most of the time.
I usually read and draw to get away from the world.
I’m 14 going to be 15 soon.

Please help!
I need help with how to tell my mom/ask her to get me checked! Please and thanks!
I am like seriously afraid to trust…anyone that ever told me that they cared or they would be there for me, either walked all over me and totally crushed me and left me in the cold, or they left.):
How do I tell my mom?
I don’t have a therapist, it was my cousins therapist.