How would you describe depression?

Depression is much more than feeling sad. Depression is lack of drive, or hope, or happiness in multiple ways. Depression is when you are missing something you once had and you in one way or another feel the void from whatever is missing. I personally have experienced depression and can attest that the depressant seems to show up more and more in your life if you try to avoid it rather than deal with it. This is surely a situation where the saying, "easier said then done" applies. Depression is a constant battle that requires time and effort to get through. As unbearable as it may feel at times I am happy to be able to say that you can get through it. The battle that is depression does have an ending point.

Depression is like standing by an open window, with all of the rain and hail blowing directly into your face, but not knowing how or being able to close the window. The window is stuck and you don't know how to fix it to make it better. Everything from the storm keeps hitting you and piling up at your feet, but you just can't figure out how to get yourself out of the situation. It feels hopeless and like there's no reason for you to try to close the window anymore because it just won't do anything to help.

Depression is like drowning in a dark, murky, polluted river, but everyone around you is fine and living a utopian life.

Like a dementor. It feels like you can never be happy again. Enough said.

Depression to me is like having your mind replaced by another one that makes me feel worthless and numb to life--even to my own husband and son. It deprives me of feeling anything other than a sense of perpetual sadness, never quite knowing the source of it but knowing that feeling well. Depression has stolen my confidence and now I no longer feel I am worthy of anyone's love. Depression calls me names and makes me have awful thoughts, and there have been times when depression has won and I've taken an overdose. It's like being stuck in a box that you can't get out of--a very dark place where you feel so low that even simple tasks are difficult You feel completely alone A total loss of who you are 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.

its like this cold thing that washes over you, you are so tired and its like your so sad you can't find the energy to cry, you feel heavy and just worthless and push people away.

Depression is a big black hole that someday you notice is big enough to make you fall into it but then it is too late

I would describe it as a feeling of emptiness. A feeling of being alone without actually being lonely. A feeling of despair and desperation to be heard, but yet feeling as if nobody would understand. Depression is sadness, confusion, and an internal pain that seems to have no end.

Depression is numbness, not the a bad mood or a good mood. It's the feeling of absolute nothing and the fear that it will never get any better.

Depression is like a demon following you telling you, you can't do this or that ect and it gets bigger if you don't try and stop it.

Depression is waking up in the morning and wishing you hadn't. You constantly feel as though nothing matters. Nothing has any real significance. You long for the ability to feel something. Nothing excites you. Everything seems negative. You have a hard time seeing anything in a positive way.

It's the feeling of hopeless about anything. Giving up on love and saying yourself that you suck at everything. You see everything bad, more then it is. Depression can take you away. It takes you away from reality and good times. You become the other - harder to live - person.

I would describe it, as this. You feel like you are drowning, you are underwater, and nobody can hear your pain. Breathing is hard, impossible yet you are still alive. You are falling away from society, yet you can see everyone around you.

I feel like depression can manifest itself differently in different people but of course with some underlying similarities. For me, depression is a feeling of hopelessness, lonliness (even though you rather be alone), lack of motivation, lack of appetite and just an overall extreme sadness. It has felt like a black hole that seems to be all around me. But with me, I always bury how I am feeling (as much as I can) and make sure that outwardly I am the person that everyone knows, which is the one that is always laughing and making jokes. Depression can be really crippling and can be deadly without the proper help.

well it's a mood when the human been thinks that he is not important he thinks that his life wown't get any better he is alaways sad and angry

carrying around a weight that doesnt go away. it makes you so tired and you feel worthless its like not being able to escape a bad dream

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.

Describing depression is not an easy job. But in my experience depression feels like drowning or being in a tiny room, with no options but to stay there and panicking while trying to find a way out. Walking through life feeling empty and repeated. Everyday is a new struggle and awaiting time to go to bed because sleeping is the way to escape

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

It's almost like a vampire sucking your energy away. It steals your strength physically, emotionally and mentally. It drains you of everything and even though you want to do things, the desire just isn't strong enough.

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.

Depression is something that have eaten you whole if you won't escape from it. The best way to escape depression is a positive outlook in life. The more positive outlook, the more positive outcome it will bring.

Depression is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts and that affects the way a person eats, sleeps, feels about himself or herself, and thinks about things.

Depression is like an all encompassing blanket. It keeps you "safe" inside of it's clutches, and can often make you feel alone and comfortable. It makes you 'comfortable' because it tries to stop you from doing anything that could make you throw it off. You feel trapped, isolated, and confused. You can't find your way out from under the blanket, and at times it feels like it's so heavy that you can't breathe.

Depression is like your mind listening to sad songs, always, continuosly. Its like your body always stressing itself just not to hear the sad song your mind is always playing. Its like your apetite and your ability to sleep dont work anymore as a form of protest against your mind, and it will go on until your mind stops playing that song. But how can you stop your own mind? By controlling it, and listening to happy songs. Tame your mind, dont let it tame you.

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 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.

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."​

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.