How do you visualise your depression?
Depression is one of the hardest things to explain to our loved ones, because it robs us of our very ability to communicate, and it's so easy to believe that it's a part of us, whereas in reality, it's something that stops us being us. How do you see your depression and what name do you give it?
I tend to view depression as a wave that pulls us under the surface of the water - we can see the surface, see the light, but it stops us swimming up to get there.
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I see myself barely covered in water.. And if I could just reach a little higher and pull myself up it would all stop and I'd be able to breath again. I'm drowning in this thing we call"life"
A huge dark shape that follows me, it gets bigger and bigger until it completely envelops my whole world and shuts out all of the light.
I see it as an empty battlefield. A war I once fought, and either win or lost. That fact doesn't matter, though. It's the emptiness that's really what it means.
A fight I once fought, that made me push myself to become my fullest. The constant challenge to stay alive, all gone. It's all dull now, compared to the glory days of the war. The vivid memories of the fighting, and now reality seems so bland.
I see my depression as something that was once thrilling, turned dull compared to the thrill. How life was once so happy, and now so empty in comparison. Okay, happy might not be the right word. More exciting. More engaging. Now, boredom creeps down and takes that away, leaving the world dull.
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A blank piece of paper behind the masks of emotion. A feeling of emptiness and loss of feeling behind images of what we show others. Pretending to feel, but knowing we don't. And by we, I mean I.
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Wow. What you described was how I felt during and after high school. My imagination was always so much better than how I viewed the real world and it made me depressed knowing that life wasn't as exciting as my daydreams. I can't believe someone other than myself knows how that feels and has worded it so beautifully. I have tried writing that in my stories, but I think you have worded it ten times better!! You are truly extraordinary and I genuinely wish you a great life. 
@RedPandaExpress88 Wow. Thanks. I honestly didn't think anyone would understand me but woah. Thanks.
Darkness with very minimal patches of light.
It's like a room with no light, I am blind in the dark and cannot see what I will bump into next. Occasionally, I'll run into a small area of light. Though it isn't bright, it is lit just enough for me to see the ground. Then it's over and I am blind once more. This room has unexpected twists and turns, I'm never walking in a straight line for too long. This room has no end. I am trapped.
I have my bad days, then I have my terrible days. But sometimes I have an OK day, and that gives me some hope that I'll find the exit..
I feel as though i am trapped down a Well .... The Well is narrow, but very tall, its completely dark apart from the opening at the top, where it sheds some light down to where i am stood ... I am looking up at the opening where i can see strangers faces peeing in ... I reach my arm up to seek help, whilst i shout to them ... The people dont react, different people come and go to peer down at me ... I try to climb the walls of the well .... The bricks are damp and slippery ... I become distressed and anxious, i give up seeking help to escape the well ... I realise that i am trapped and there is no way i can escape :( ....
Like I'm fading away into the darkness and feel so lost like there's no hope of finding the light
At the worst it feels like I am drowning and there is no possible way I will make it to the surface for air ever again
A dark cloud that never goes away, no matter how bright the sunlight is the dark cloud is there making it dim, letting me know I'm here to haunt you
Being stuck inside a black hole. Enough said. .-.
I visualize it as a black void that encompasses my entire body. It has the consistency of rubber cement and doesn't let me move or be productive. Fighting it exhausts me to the point of laying in bed motionless trying to avoid thinking about anything at all.