How would you describe depression?
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Depression is the inability to construct or envision a futur it's a dark, inescapable place, it's like being locked in a room with no light windows, or door...
It seems different for every person that I've spoken to, some are lonely, and some are just sad. When I had an issue, I felt alone, and helping people on this site made my days better. :)
Anonymous
January 7th, 2016 10:04pm
Depression is like a vortex of loneliness and a feeling of uselessness. It's really hard to break out of, purely because of the nature of it- you have an underlying want and need to have a purpose and have someone to talk to, but the depression ruins your mental state and steals away that drive from within you.
Depression may be described as feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps. Most of us feel this way at one time or another for short periods.
Clinical depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for weeks or more. And if it is in severe from you really need medical attention..as its due to the deficiency of serotonin in basal ganglia so you need to consult then with a psychiatrist..only counseling will not be helpful then..
Anonymous
January 8th, 2016 10:46pm
Depression is a feeling that leaves someone sad and angry with the object of their disaffection, constantly feeling alone and that nothing you do is good enough.
You know that feeling of weights being pushed against you. When you miss a step on a stair case and your stomach lurches. When you feel everything and nothing at once. It is like that but way much worse.
Depression is the weight on your chest. Depression is not getting excited about things you used to love. Depression is the tug on your heart when you hear something you didn't want to. Depression is being too tired to get out of bed in the morning, or too tired to even speak. It feels like nothing is enjoyable, and nothing can make you smile. It sucks.
a feeling of ever lasting wholes in your heart in which it feels like your dieing of breathlessness
Anonymous
January 9th, 2016 2:58pm
For me depression is like a big dark cloud. Sometimes it rains heavily, sometimes it is kinda quiet
depression feels very heavy and sometimes you may not understand what is happening. depression can affect people differently and some symptoms are: (1) crying alot and not wanting to enjoy activities, (2) sleeping all the time and not taking care of personal matters, and (3) not wanting to leave the house or have fun
Standing underneath a floor of glass, screaming and banging on it trying to get the attention of the rest of the world going about their lives without you. The problem is no-one can hear you or even knows you're trapped there.
Very nasty illness and it's a illness where you think about everything a just get upsets,it's really not nice x
Anonymous
January 10th, 2016 3:52am
Depression is like falling into an abyss of darkness. You feel this big emptiness in your chest and it hurts. You lose hope in everything, and you feel like you're worth nothing. Like a dementor, all of your happiness and life is sucked out of you. It's like being under a spell of sadness for all eternity.
By a simple quote,
“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.†– Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind Of A Funny Story
Depression is like drowning under water, except there's no sweet relief of death. On top of that, you have to pretend as though you can breathe under water, because everyone else seems to breathe just fine.
It's painful. Mentally and physically. It's tiring and it makes you feel so so down. It's such a bad feeling.
Anonymous
January 13th, 2016 5:45am
When I deal with depression, I feel down about nothing in particular. I lose all desire to do anything, and I feel uncomfortable and down about nothing
Many people use the word “depression†to explain these kinds of feelings, but depression is much more than just sadness. Some people describe depression as “living in a black hole†or having a feeling of impending doom.
Depression is a cloud hovering over me all the time. Sometimes the cloud envelops me, sometimes not.
Anonymous
January 13th, 2016 4:49pm
depression is much more than just sadness. Some people describe depression as “living in a black holeâ€.
A chemical state whereby a person has an excessive lack of motivation and general "do stuff" type of willpower which can stem from either psychological or physiological origins.
I would describe depression as a condition in which either you do not feel anything or you are highly emotional.And lacking the notion of self-worth and purpose.
There is really no ONE description. I'd say it could be a feeling of sadness, despair and no energy or motivation, but it could also be a prolonged feeling of everything being indifferent to you, a feeling of emptiness or numbness. It's a grey mist, that lays itself over your life and it can be heavy and dark, but also lighter but numbing and everything feels distant.
Blue. Like a deep dark blue color. I feel like I'm under too many blankets, it's like a slow motion of suffocation. And everytime I try too push up and get out of the blankets or at least kick a few off, it's like the weight of all those blankets and the motion just sucks all the energy out and I fall back down in exhaustion.
Anonymous
January 17th, 2016 1:15am
depression is when you don't enjoy things you used to anymore. you begin to isolate yourself from everyone because nobody understands except you. you begin to lose touch with people because you just don't have the energy to want to be around anyone. depression takes over your entire body. and you can't control it.
A black hole that exists inside of you sucking everything ,draining you until you are out off life.You feel dead but somehow you ARE still breathing,your inside is empthy yet filled with pain but you feel that you can;t talk with anyone because they're going to judge you,tell you to get over it and that you talk nonsense,that you are stupid and not supossed to feel this way.
Anonymous
January 20th, 2016 3:59am
Depression is like a heavy forest, with screeching noises all around and for a long time all you get to hear is a jumbled noise of the creatures of darkness and people who give you weak words of hope. You wildly look at every direction for a long time to find what's wrong with you, to find a way out of it but then you realize that you're too deep inside the forest and you can only get out of here if someone comes to your help.
Anonymous
January 20th, 2016 4:17am
Deep sadness that consumes you and blocks the happiness
Anonymous
January 21st, 2016 5:18pm
I wrote a poem that explains it:Locked in a cage without a key
I am prisoner of my own mind
Feeling nothing but worthlessness
Trusting not even myself any more
I walked in happy and naive
But got suppressed and pushed
Pushed down until I couldn't see the sky
All I could see was anger, hatred, jealousy
So I blocked it out
Stopped trying to climb out of the pit
I had lost my love, lost my anchor, lost my life
Replaced them all with scars, regrets and nothingness
The rope is there, just above my head
But I have lost the strength to get up
And even if I did that rope is far too frayed
I am trapped in an unlocked room, an open doorway
I can't push my way through the fog
A period in life where you'll have to fight an unfair emotional war.
Depression can be hard, never give up!
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