How would you describe depression?

Depression is a disease that means many things. You could feel worthless, or maybe you can't bring yourself to smile or laugh.

Hmm, I like to think of thing very theoretically. I'd call it a maze. Everyone has a maze. They create it over time. It's the way people don't go insane out of boredom. But, you can add people to your maze, and that makes it more enjoyable. Because there is somebody to share your adventures with. But it also combines the two mazes together making the maze more strenuous. If you add yourself to too many different peoples' mazes, you'll get stuck going around in circles because you've blocked off all the pathways. You'll be stuck in boredom forever.

I believe depression is one's state of mind in which the individual believes none of his or her actions are able to improve the state of their well-being. It is when one feels helpless to the point where the end of that life seems like the best outcome that the individual can guarantee.

When things that you used to like to do just seems dull. Even if you're feeling sad you can find some pleasure when you engage in activities you use to like. It can be eating, shopping, or even going out, but when you're depressed this very same things just don't look fine and you let them go.

Like a black dog following you around and jumping on you when you try to do things. It keeps you from doing things you like and needs lots of attention

Depression is the feeling of being trapped. No matter what is around you, it seems as if you can't feel happiness.

It feels like the weight of all of your sadness comes crashing down at once and you can't breath, or think or function. You just feel so sad and hopeless all the time and have no clue why. It is a pit of darkness that no matter how hard you try, you always get sucked back down into and then light seemingly comes out of nowhere only to disappear again. It is dark and lonely and scary. It is a heavy feeling of pure hatred, sadness and hopelessness.

Personally, I would describe depression as being in a state of deep sadness that can't be truly analysed. It's as if you become a hollow shell of what you originally were, and it's very difficult to enjoy daily life like you once did. It's like a negative cloud is constantly above you, having judgement on everything you do and it makes you experience awful emotions that can't exactly be linked to anything. I think in those times, it truly makes you question so many things that don't necessarily have an answer. It's truly difficult to deal with depression, because it's like someone or something has drained your liveliness and passions to a point where it feels like all you're doing is just surviving, you're not even living. It's like being chained to every dreary thought that you could possibly have, and no matter how much you want to get on with daily tasks it's seems so impossible as the chains drag you back into an apathetic, melancholic lifestyle.

it's when you stop thinking clearly, when everything seem to be so dark and sad and you just can't find a reason to move on, to keep fighting, you just start doubting your existence and your role in this world

Depression is a hard feeling to describe, it can feel overwhelming, it feels like being exhausted all the time and really sad. You think you see the world with an accurate eye while you paint it all in darkness and misfortune. It feels like every single little thing require a lot of efforts for you and is harder and harder to do. But everyone can get over it and fight it, just remember to reach for help, you are not alone :)

It feels as if you're dragged into an endless cycle of worrying, sadness and emptiness, and it doesn't stop, no matter how much you want it to.

Depression is something what makes you see in everything the worst even if it is not bad at all. It's like wearing sunglasses in the dark.

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.

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

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.

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.

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."​

When you become upset and lose sight of the things that make you happy in your life. Depression makes you act like a duller version of yourself and you lose the real you for a while.

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.

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 feels like the death eaters from Harry Potter has come and sucked everything good, everything that matters, away from you.

Depression is the feeling of worthlessness. It swallows you whole and makes you feel numb and unworthy. It takes away lifestyles and substitutes them with the longing of all of the pain to go away. Depression is a state of being that during the moment seems like it will be forever. But depression is not your destiny. Describing depression is like telling people your daily struggles between life and death and that takes strength. Depression is not romantic; depression is the feeling like there are walls between you and the rest of the world and you can't seem to figure out how to tear them down.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there, though.

Depression is a bad feeling that has its ups and downs, and it is when we keep falling and falling and we feel that there is no end to it. It is also like a light which is dimming slowly and in that darkness we have negative self talk, suffering and a lot of pain and many other things, this how I would describe it since I have experienced it

I would describe depression as a dark cloud that follows you around for years that sometimes becomes a rain cloud that reaks havoc and sometimes the cloud is not as dense

Depression has physical and emotional factors which interact together. For me, this was feeling exhausted and extremely low as well as agitated and aggressive. Everybody experiences it differently

Depression is the state of being sad/upset for long periods of time, causing laziness, lack of motivation, and often negative thoughts about one self due to the sad/upset part of depression.

Depressing feelings and losing interest in things you once liked. Lsck of confidence, unable to communicate how you feel and what you are going through. Inner conflict of sharing and connecting vs withdrawal

Depression is like a dark cloud. Some days, it may be a small, fluffy cloud. On others, it could be a gigantic beast of a cloud that covers the entire sky that is your mind. It’s like having a constant ‘Sunday feeling’ : an entire new week is looming large, the weekend seems ages away and you don’t have any thing to look forward to. It can take over you life, you are in a perpetual state of loneliness, guilt and hatred towards the person you are. You never have anything to look forward to anymore, life seems worthless. But hang in there, one day it will get easier.