How would you describe depression?

Beind engulfed in a thick, black blanket when everyone else is surrounded by a light, thin, cotton white sheet and you find it difficult to get out from under this blanket that makes you severely sad and distraught.

PS "depression" can be desolate hurt, rage at abandonment, terror and aloneness, deep hopelessness and warm swollen tears that can never be shed. It can be the dreadful long existence of a child waiting for someone to come, "love lost", forever in nothing. It can be any number of these things and more, mixed up in an individual concoction, that is your personal tragedy, your personal grief. It can be different between men and women and between women and women and between depression and PTSD and between depression of PTSD because our wounds and traumas and tragedies were unique. It's a bit like taking a palate of deep frightening colours and mixing them up- everyone's streaks and patterns will be different. Some might have a unified colour, others unmixed, some with bigger splodges of paint than others. Some with one layer of paint, others with new layers inflicted over and over.. The secret to understanding is in your own history, your own trauma, your own pain. Then the colours of your symptoms give way and you start to see the colours and brush strokes that started it all off.

Depression for me is the feeling of being stuck and unable to break free from the negative thoughts that hold onto me. In this instance I could be feeling sad, worthless or anxious about the future.

It is a place where no one wants to go. Its dark, you feel helpless and you just want to cry because it hurts so bad.

For me, it feels kind of like drowning and kind of like a crushing feeling. And, like almost everybody, it makes me feel worthless and useless. It feels like I'm all alone even though I know I'm not. Its a horrible feeling, and makes me hate myself, even though it's not my fault I have depression.

Depression makes you feel alone, and like you just want to sit there doing nothing whilst having a strange feeling in your belly

It's darkness which doesn't let us enjoy and live our life the way we want it to be. It controls us.

Depression can be different for everyone. The most common symptoms of depression are oversleeping, not sleeping enough, loss of motivation in activities that once interested you, overeating, loss of appetite, and lack of energy. It varies for everyone.

I would describe depression as an emotional stress that can cause one to be in a down mood for an non evident reason. Depression can affect daily life causing one not to be social and to be very introverted.

depression is much more than just sadness. its hard to go through it, thats why you need to get back on your feet and like your life happily. 'YOLO'

Depression makes you realize that everything is wrong and off. It feels like your carrying a big weight on your back everyday. Depression feels like your the only one in a room thats not functioning correctly. You don't feel happy and seem hopeless.You feel like you’re moving (and thinking) in slow motion. Carrying on a normal conversation is a struggle. You can’t seem to express yourself. You’re not sure if you still love your spouse/significant other. It seems like everything is your fault. You think your selfish and guilty. You think your worthless when your not. You have recurring thoughts of death and/or suicidal impulses. Suicide seems like a welcome relief.

To me, depression is a mixed feeling of emptiness, loneliness and failure. Sometimes it can only be one of those things. It's definitely a feeling a sadness and anger. There's a lot of confusion. It can be many different things.

Depression cannot be easily described. Depression is more than only sadness and crying. Depression is a serious mental condition that makes you feel numb, empty, lonely and worthless. Sometimes we even don't feel like eating anymore, or we start to sleep more because it drains our energy.

Depression goes deeper then sadness... From my experience there always has to be a trigger which often sends someone on a downwards spiral.

depression is much more than just sadness. Some people describe depression as “living in a black hole” or having a feeling of impending doom

Its like someone has sucked all the life out of you. Leaving you a shell of a person. Where you feel stuck with no way out.

Depression, from personal experience, feels like a very deep hole where, no matter how loudly you call for help, it just seems that no one else can hear you. It varies from a general sadness in that depression lingers and sets in for a long period of time. Having an outlet and/or a support group that understands is a great start to getting a grip on the condition - and do know that depression is a manageable illness. I wish you all the best.

Depression is like the foam pits at those indoor trampoline places. You feel like you might never escape. You pray someone reaches in to help you. You try to crawl free but every move makes you fall deeper. You desperately want to get out, but you don't know how. Depression is a eternal foam pit. Most of the time you can't get yourself out and you need other people's help. That's why it's so important your here. The people here are here to pull you out.

A lot of people say it's sadness, but I would have to disagree. Sure, there's crying at four in the morning. Depression is so much more than sadness. It's this feeling of worthlessness and drowning. It's like you're cold and even though you have fifty blankets and it's 90 degrees outside, you can't get warm.

Depression is a overall sadness, like a disorder that can possibly be cured depending on how deep the depression is in a person.

A feeling of crippling sadness and numbness that prevents you from doing normal, daily activities.

Constant darkness inside of your own head and no one else can see it. It feels like no one else will ever be able to help you.

A dark mental cloud that affects relationships, thoughts, and emotions. It is uncontrollable and it is an actual mental disorder.

Like a dark cloud hanging over your head every minute of every day. It's like you are being controlled by a puppeteer and they are pulling you this way and that, controlling all that you do.

A sinking feeling. It feels like a knot in your stomach that just keeps knitting tighter and tighter and then losens and then tightens again.it feels like you a drowning with no one to help you,barely able to breath but you somehow are barely surviving

Depression is like having a mosquito in your ear during a big party. You don't notice because you're having fun and it's loud and you're distracted. Then the party ends, and when you're left in the quiet room alone, you realize "Oh man, there was a mosquito in my ear that ENTIRE time..." Sometimes you don't realize that it is affecting you until long after the damage is done.

A case of severe sadness. Most people experiencing depression sulk for days and may not take care of themselves by not eating, drinking, or sleeping. It may lead to self-harm or harming others.

Depression is a state of mind that is very difficult to distinguish from your own identity. It involves hate and sadness for the world, for the future, and towards yourself. You feel like you are trapped in your life, that nobody understands you, and there is nothing you can do about it.

Dark, tiresome, and feeling like your mind has been fogged with a dark mist making your thoughts become negative. You want to cry but don't feel good enough for it, you find yourself in the reach of food but don't have the appetite. You find yourself alone, and isolated. It's hell.

I would describe depression as a state of mind where everything seems bleaker than it is and when a person loses complete hope.I think it is a serious issue which is often brushed to the side by saying get over it which is just not that easy to do.