How would you describe depression?

it's when you stop thinking clearly, when everything seem to be so dark and sad and you just can't find a reason to move on, to keep fighting, you just start doubting your existence and your role in this world

Depression is a hard feeling to describe, it can feel overwhelming, it feels like being exhausted all the time and really sad. You think you see the world with an accurate eye while you paint it all in darkness and misfortune. It feels like every single little thing require a lot of efforts for you and is harder and harder to do. But everyone can get over it and fight it, just remember to reach for help, you are not alone :)

It feels as if you're dragged into an endless cycle of worrying, sadness and emptiness, and it doesn't stop, no matter how much you want it to.

Depression is something what makes you see in everything the worst even if it is not bad at all. It's like wearing sunglasses in the dark.

I'm under a duvet, a massive one. I'm weighed down with weights to the bed and I am weak. I can see light peeking from a side of the duvet. Occasionally I will be able to stick a hand out to see if someone would pull me out. But every time, I am ignored or they can't pull me out. They help, but I am still trapped. But soon, someone will pull me out. I know it.

I would describe it as a feeling where you have no control over how you are feeling. You know what you are doing might be detrimental to your mental state, but you do it anyway because you don't feel like you are in control.

Sometimes it feels as if your soul has gone for a walk and you're left trying to cope as just a body

Like a dark cloak or person berating you and dragging you down. Or like a chain holding you to he bottom of the ocean under all the doubts and insecurities that act as water. Trying to drown you.

Feeling like you just don't care about anything or anyone. Being numb. Things that used to make you happy just fell like every day things. Nothing is really special anymore.

Depression, especially it's severe form is NOT mere sadness, it is a debilitatingly paralytic medical condition which rots one's mind from the inside out. It causes immeasurable mental pain. Those afflicted by this sickness suffer in a way that's inhumane, but yet since we look fine on the outside, we're looked at as weak and defected, and shunned as if we have mental HIV. Normal people think they can relate, because we've all been through the blues, and they apparently have the solutions, SNAP OUT OF IT and THINK POSITIVE. Do you tell a person with diabetes that if they think positive magically insulin will start being produced? It's the same thing, in the former, the brain is not functioning properly, and in the latter it's the pancreas. The following is a little taste of what full blown clinical depression feels like.... "What I had begun to discover is that, mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this cauldron, because there is no escape from this smothering confinement, it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion."​

When you become upset and lose sight of the things that make you happy in your life. Depression makes you act like a duller version of yourself and you lose the real you for a while.

depression is a feeling that you have lost something but having no clue when and where you last had it. then one fine day you realize what you lost is yourself.

I would describe it as being continuously being in the dark. The dark is cold and scary and it makes things hard to see. Like sometimes you can't find help or find a reason to keep going.

Depression feels like the death eaters from Harry Potter has come and sucked everything good, everything that matters, away from you.

Depression is the feeling of worthlessness. It swallows you whole and makes you feel numb and unworthy. It takes away lifestyles and substitutes them with the longing of all of the pain to go away. Depression is a state of being that during the moment seems like it will be forever. But depression is not your destiny. Describing depression is like telling people your daily struggles between life and death and that takes strength. Depression is not romantic; depression is the feeling like there are walls between you and the rest of the world and you can't seem to figure out how to tear them down.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there, though.

Depression is a bad feeling that has its ups and downs, and it is when we keep falling and falling and we feel that there is no end to it. It is also like a light which is dimming slowly and in that darkness we have negative self talk, suffering and a lot of pain and many other things, this how I would describe it since I have experienced it

I would describe depression as a dark cloud that follows you around for years that sometimes becomes a rain cloud that reaks havoc and sometimes the cloud is not as dense

Depression has physical and emotional factors which interact together. For me, this was feeling exhausted and extremely low as well as agitated and aggressive. Everybody experiences it differently

Depression is the state of being sad/upset for long periods of time, causing laziness, lack of motivation, and often negative thoughts about one self due to the sad/upset part of depression.

Depressing feelings and losing interest in things you once liked. Lsck of confidence, unable to communicate how you feel and what you are going through. Inner conflict of sharing and connecting vs withdrawal

Depression is like a dark cloud. Some days, it may be a small, fluffy cloud. On others, it could be a gigantic beast of a cloud that covers the entire sky that is your mind. It’s like having a constant ‘Sunday feeling’ : an entire new week is looming large, the weekend seems ages away and you don’t have any thing to look forward to. It can take over you life, you are in a perpetual state of loneliness, guilt and hatred towards the person you are. You never have anything to look forward to anymore, life seems worthless. But hang in there, one day it will get easier.

Depression for me is like being in a room with no doors, Giving no opportunities, No hobbies and no fun too those that have it!

Depression has many stages that include 8 stages of mourning. Normal depression can last up to two weeks, anything longer leads into more serious cases. Symptoms varies from lack of concentration, sleep, motivation, confident, eating, hope, faith, and the list goes on.

Depression is a constant low in your mood. You may find you're sleeping a bit more than usual, and don't want to go out much.

Some people describe depression as “living in a black hole” or having a feeling of impending doom, not just being "sad". There can be feelings of exhaust, or not wanting to move forward with life. Sometimes you feel as if there is nothing inside you. (But remember, these feelings do fade)

Like an invisible hand clutching at your throat. Also like a dark cloud, raining on your happiness. Like invisible people tearing you to bits. Making you become glass. Then they shatter you... and everything is gone.

At first like a grey and rainy day. You might comment on it but think nothing of it. Then the next day it rains. And the next. Soon its been raining for a full week and you haven't noticed that outside is black and storming.

A daily routine of sadness and hopelessness that you can't shake off. You cannot have a feeling of happiness or joy because of depression.

I would describe depression as that negative, constantly complaining friend in your life -- the one that at first you thought you could tolerate and welcome, but throughout time, you realize it's just getting harder and harder to be around them, because their energy is just so bad. Depression is then that negative friend that you need to let go of, that you need to remind them there are good things in life, that you have to appreciate the beauty of life. It's hard to do so all the time, but it is possible. Sometimes you just have to let go of old friends and move on; you have to realize what's best for your own interest and health.