The pressure of modern life, global economic depression and political turmoil set off a panic, depressed mood depression era, with the media present a negative images , so this study was to explore the cognitive convey by media How to shape the public perception of depression risk perception, but also those factors affected the risk of public perception of depression?The results showed that, the public perception of risk for depression is still low, many people do not think will suffering from depression. Factors in affecting the ability to predict, the most significant factor is optimism, then it is personal experience, whereas depression information and depression knowledge influence was small.