How would you describe depression?

Depression is drowning in your own thoughts and knowing that you can breathe but somehow you unconsciously and sometimes willingly grip your throat and suppress your lungs for air. Sometimes you get a whiff of that breathable air but then just one bubble pops and it's waves and waves of tides once again.

I would describe depression as a common yet serious thing. Depression is a horrible illness that lots of people suffer. I think depression is kind of a state you're in that completely takes over and starts to take a toll on your life, making daily activities challenging that wouldn't normally be. It seems endless, the feeling gets worse and worse before it ever gets better. Hang in there, getting help can get you places you never thought you would be.

To me depression is like being constantly trapped in a thick fog. You can't see anything or feel anything, and there's no way of knowing when you'll get out. It's scary and horrible but also oddly numbing, and above all incredibly lonely.

You'd feel like you could't wake up. Or don't want to wake up. Like everything and everyone in the world is against you. You feel lost. Not sure what to do. "Do I do this right?" "Should I quit?" You'll feel like nothing goes right. Like everything is pointless. You lose interest in things you once loved doing.

The word depression conjures an image of a heavy blanket thrown on someones back or even a person. For some they can do what they did before but the pep in their step is gone and there always feels to be a heavy weight on their back and for others the weight simply becomes to much and the toll on their emotions is crippling.

I would describe depression as a feeling of helplessness or hopelessness that you cant seem to get over. You may feel increased sadness, or like you are in a funk that you can't get out of. You may find that you can no longer perform your normal daily activities the way you used to. If you find that you are feeling this way please seek advice from a medical professional such as a doctor, counselor or therapist.

It's like an endless, dark well full with negativity and hate towards yourself and other people, where you have no interest in things and you can easily drown.

It is different for every person, but I would say it is a state of mind that prevents you from living your day to day life, and becomes an impediment in allowing ones' true self to come across.

I would describe depression by feeling down all the time not wonting to bother with people and doing things and wanting to cry without knowing why sometimes

A person who is very sad always crying or feeling blue that they cant stand to be around others who dont really dont like to Do the things they used to do...

Like everything inside you rotting, being burned to ashes, or frozen. Like being in the dark, underwater, slowley suffocating, finding spots with just enough air to keep you alive until the next one, but you keep struggling, cause somewhere must be a way out.

Bad mood,bad appetite,losing interest to everything and everyone.You have no any new ideas.Crying whole day.

There's no one way to describe depression. For me it was like being trapped in a bubble. Sometimes that bubble would get really big and I'd be able to have fun and suck, other times it felt like that bubble was going to crush me with its weight.

Depression is like a raincloud that constantly looms over you, follows you everywhere you go. It's a difficult, but not impossible, thing to overcome and deal with. Especially on your own.

I tend to think of depression as a cloud that hangs over your head, and follows you to a lot of places! I don't really know how to describe it.

Depression is like suffocating. You just feel completely numb and heavy. At times it's hard to even take a deep breath. You can't even move. You just have to sit there, and let yourself sink lower and lower into never ending sadness. At times all you can think about is how you should just end it all. How this never ending pain could finally disappear, along with you. At other times all you can do is think about how alone you feel feel. No matter how many people are around you or try to help you, you just feel so unbelievably alone. Nothing ever seems to help. Sometimes you just take it out on yourself with a blade, trying with every bone in you're body to relieve some of the pain. Sometimes you just can't stop crying. But most of all, you just have to lay there motionless. You can't feel anything except you're paralyzing thoughts running through you're head. You lay there hoping maybe tonight you'll fall asleep. Or on really bad nights, that you won't ever wake up..

Depression is having everything else in the world - people around you, logic, rationale - tell you one thing and a part of your brain over-riding that with negativity, despair and confusion.

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The state of emptiness. Feeling overwhelemed with feelings of nothingness. A kind of sadness but not quite sadness. Just the feeling of emotional morbidity

Depression is different for everyone the general common feeling shared is sadness and often numbness or emptiness. It is different for everyone however, this means you can be feeling any number emotions nothing is right or wrong when it comes to depression.

Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad. But these feelings are usually short-lived and pass within a couple of days. When you have depression, it interferes with daily life and causes pain for both you and those who care about you.

It's a black hole that keeps getting bigger and bigger sucking you in, unless you fight it over and don't let yourself go over.

It feels like having an imaginary friend that keeps doing things against your will and sucks out all of your energy at the same time

i would describe it as just a very dark place in your head, you're still in there looking out of your eyes but you cant stop what you're doing, something has taken over your brain and it just makes you feel alone and lost in yourself and like you dont have control over your thoughts and sometimes words and actions

depression is a very strong and controlling mental illness, but remember its just a label, and once you label yourself with it everything that happens to you will be because you are "depressed"

Depression is basically when you give up on yourself and the situations you have in your surroundings. You feel like there is no point to you actions, you lose interest in your hobbies. Simple tasks become difficult. Everything can seem dark and sucked empty of any significance. A depressed person is likely to contemplate things like death a lot more.

The worst thing in the world. Its a never ending roller coaster. But you aren't alone. I think it's something like 80% of people in the world have experienced it.

I would describe it personally (as someone who has had it for two years) as an extended period of time where you are constantly feeling only pessimistic emotions and you find it very hard to become motivated.

In my personal experience, I would describe depression as this: It is as if you were stuck in a box. There is nothing in the box except for you. You are left there, stuck with your thoughts which often overcloud you. The box is dark. This is all you can see for the majority of the time. However... every now and then you get enough strength to move yourself to the side of the box where you can see outside a tiny hole. Finally, you can see light. But it is not long until you make your way back into the middle of the box where is is dark and lonely once again.

The sun is shining all around you but you're sitting in a rain cloud, bundled up because you're freezing. You can feel the Suns warmth but it isn't really impacting you at all.