How would you describe depression?

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 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'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

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 a cage you have the key to but there's no lock. It's like it fell from the sky and landed around you with a key.

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.

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 takes away everything from you I.e. The things you loved doing are no more enjoyable to you and you see everything in a negative light. There is a lot of hate from you, you just want everyone to pay and suffer like you did

I would describe depression as an urchin stuck to my snorkelers fin, trying to shake it odd but it won't go away. It is the darkness that cannot be lit by your own light, and you need many candles to help you find your way out of it. It is sunglasses on a sunny day, and coldness in the sun.

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.

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.

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

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

Depression isn't something that comes and goes. It isn't something you label yourself as when you're sad. Depression is so much more than sadness, granted sadness is a massive part of depression but there is so much more to it. The feeling of worthlessness, loneliness within a circle of friends, isolating oneself, the constant fear of something. Depression isn't just sadness, it's something that can overtake your life.

It hurts to breathe and it kills to eat..its like lost in a dark haunted house scared but to lazy to escape

I would describe depression as no motivation at all, as being tired all the time and having no energy to do something, not even an activity that you like. Depression is feeling empty, is feeling lost, is feeling overwhelmed sometimes. Depression is like a ghost, or a little you that doesn't leave your side.

An endless journey on a dark road with no pit stops, constant rain, and no food or shelter. You feel empty, close to death, but you cannot die and feel like a walking corpse. You're always crying, silently begging for someone to help you and save you - but no one can...

Often having feelings of emptiness and hopelessness even though they are difficult to explain... but it's something you sense... And getting upset and stressed over "small" things, because they are the straws that broke the camel's back... There are just so many things going on inside you and yet you have a void within yourself, you want to fill with food, self harming, attention/compliments/validation from others, alcohol, pills, cigarettes etc. And you can never fill the void no matter how much you try to do so... and it's the strangest thing, you're filled with sadness and helplessness, but at the same time you feel empty inside. There's no light at the end of the tunnel... I want to believe that things will get better, but I genuinely don't see how I could ever get a different mind than the one I have now, so it's hopeless... that's depression for me.

I can't every person experience it differently. Feeling down is a strong thing but one doesn't need to be sad all the time to be depressed

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Depression is like that bully at school, whom you try to avoid and not acknowledge, but he ultimately comes up to your face and tries to screw everything up. He won't let you do your daily routine stuff. His favorite activity is to disturb you while you are doing something you like. But the best part about bullies is that they are weak, when faced with a big smile. :)

Depression is like being stuck under water, but you can see out of it and see all of your friends/family outside of the water happy and laughing. You want to get out so you try to fake the happiness you see, but it just makes the water feel heavier. The water makes moving, breathing, thinking, etc. Hard.

Depression to me is like having your mind replaced by another one that makes me feel worthless and numb to life. Slipping into depression feels like falling down a dark bottomless shaft, wondering if and when your fall will ever be caught. You feel completely alone. It is a total loss of who you are.