How would you describe depression?
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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
Anonymous
December 11th, 2015 1:10pm
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.
Anonymous
December 12th, 2015 3:58am
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.
Like falling into a bottomless pit that is completely dark and inescapable. You feel like you're suffocating. You feel like there is no hope and no end to your suffering.
I would describe it as a plethora of feelings that mesh in to something that can effectively ruin someone's life. lack of motivation, anger, numbness, sadness and so many other emotions can be felt if one has depression. in short, depression is something no one wants to feel
It feels like the world is pointless and that anything you do or anything that happens doesn't matter. Nothing makes sense. Often times you also become suicidal, but its not a necessary part of being depressed.
Anonymous
December 13th, 2015 8:25am
I would describe depression as a weight that hits you hard when you least expect it.Its the most horrible thing ever.
Anonymous
December 16th, 2015 11:08am
Constantly being unhappy. Not being able to do things which you used to enjoy and enjoying themselves like you did back then. Feeling like your on your own, like you have nobody to speak to or someone that understands
No emotions are clear; a mix of sadness and everyother emotion possible, a lack of motivation to do anything.
A blackhole in your brain that absorbs and takes over everything you're thinking about, it changes the way you think, makes you irrational and emotional.
If I had to describe depression, it would be a lot messier than the sleeping all day, sad thought sort of depression. It’s the smell of your laundry that you haven’t done in over a week in a half but you can’t bring yourself to touch because it’s overwhelming. It’s the pile of dishes that grows slowly but surely, since sometimes you barely want to eat. It’s the sheets you haven’t washed in a long time because why wash them if all you ever do is stay at home in them? It’s the dust covering everything, yourself included. It’s the headache from sleeping too long, but not wanting to wake up. It’s the house you’ve let go but you can’t find the motivation to fix. It’s the books piled up that you know you want to read but you can’t focus on them. It’s the friends you don’t answer when they text, it’s the avoided questions of “what have you been up to lately†life has blended together into one continuous day, I don’t remember what was different about yesterday compared to today. It’s the knowing you have something wrong but having so few ways to fix it.
Depression to me is like a devil on my shoulder, or a shadow over me. It tells me that I'm not enough, or that I shouldn't bother doing things because it isn't worth it. It's a heavy weight I carry everywhere but with time will learn to hold and overcome. Depression doesn't define you.
Imagine you're wearing a belt. This belt has every tool to stop you from being attacked, basically: it makes you feel numb. It's great isn't it? Well, the belt also makes you feel heavy. You have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, or to stay outside for very long because of it. Some days it'll see like it's a bit lighter than others. Then you'll do everything you can, other days it'll be heavier. You'll do your best to hide this belt too, you'll wear a shirt over it for example, so people don't know about it. But in the end; you will always be wearing it.
Anonymous
December 16th, 2015 5:20pm
A drowning sensation that feels like no one can save you because they can't see that you're drowning. They don't understand the daily struggles to just make it through the day. An endless tunnel that can't be escaped.
Depression is waking up as a skeleton in the morning and putting on a suit of skin and smiles for the day.
Anonymous
December 16th, 2015 8:39pm
depression is like you feel alone and you dont want to tell anyone because you feel like you dont care you might feel so long and you cant do anything you feel like your failing everyone
To me depression is when everything is just gray and black, nothing you do realy matters, nothing you try realy helps. No matter what you attempt to do it seems to just fail and backlash. At all times. To me that is how depression manifested and how it almost swallowed me whole.
Anonymous
December 17th, 2015 2:42am
Losing interests in things you used to enjoy- not being able to attribute the problem to any one thing; things that should make you happy in a healthy state of mind feel empty.
For me, depression is like a black hole and the further you go into the black hole, the less motivation you have and the more sorrow, emptiness and pain you feel. it's also kind of like a black cloud that just comes over your mind and makes everything foggy and confusing
When you're depressed you think that your life has no value, you think that you make no difference in the world and you kinda annoy yourself for being alive (you hate yourself and everything that you do).
Depression isn't always wanting to kill yourself. It is just not having the capability to feel happy (not for a long period of time).
You might not want to kill yourself, but you wouldn't mind if you died.
Anonymous
December 17th, 2015 11:36pm
To me depression feels physically like gravity is suddenly the most powerful force on earth and it weighs every muscle in your body down. And mentally: depression is an inability to construct a positive future.
Symptoms of depression can vary from person to person. Some of the symptoms can be change in appitite, loss of interest in things you once enjoyed, moodiness, sadness, and even physical pain just to name a few, if you think you may have depression talk to your doctor and they can make sure something else is not causing your symptoms!
Hopelessness, lost, loss of happiness, overwhelming, like a cloud over someone's head, draining, tiredness, lack of motivation
Well here's an analogy to help. It's like a dark stormy cloud that hangs over you, it casts its shadow over you and there's hardly any light that comes through to you. In this case the shadow is like deep sadness, it brings you down and when you try to be happy little or no light will come through. It might make you a little happy but it won't have much effect. Some days it's not as bad, there's hardly a cloud hanging over you. Other days it's like a dreadful thunderstorm, like your feeling are so overwhelming it's like being in an "emotional storm" darkness from the cloud is hard to escape from it wants to keep where you are, it wants you to feel weak and no longer motivated.
It would be hard to describe depression and be accurate. There are different types of depression and depression affects us all differently. However, some common symptoms are loss or gain in appetite, constant low moods, no energy, lack of motivation, feeling helpless or hopeless, crying often, sometimes physical pain and or thoughts of suicide. Any amount of depression can be a dark time for anyone.
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