What does depression feel like?

Depression - It's lot more to do with feeling hollow or empty and much less with sadness. Feeling no motivation or purpose to live, being pleased with the idea of death, loss of will to do anything even things previously enjoyed. Anxiety - constant consciousness and thoughts of fear. Being unable to interact or indulge in activities due to fears and preoccupation of mind. Constant thoughts about worse possible outcome. Very low confidence and loss of faith in self.

Depression and anxiety are two different feelings and yet so close to each other. One can lead to the other. Depression is waking up, and realising that the all world seem to go by with or without you. Feeling that your life could go on pause and it wouldn't change a thing. Is forgetting that you have friends, or worse, think that everyone just hates you. And since the world keeps turning and running, why should I wake up? Why should I go out, since there is no need for me out there. Depression is feeling invisible. Anxiety is feeling that you are unworthy of your own life.

It honestly sucks because you feel like there is no escape and everything will get worse.It makes you feel isolated and weak. However, it can easily be helped by thinking positively and that everything will be ok in the end, and we can learn to cope with it! Positivity is the trick, but it is quite hard as i suffer from anxiety and i get quite depressed from it. and i find it totally sucks, but i am learning to deal with it and I'm gradually feeling better :). I hope this helps/answers your question.

I hope its alright to post links ..... but THIS sum's up my answer. http://imgur.com/gallery/G4aXz What you need to know is with Anxiety and Depression, you are NOT alone in your feelings and you should never be afraid of what you are feeling or thinking.

Anxiety is like a living hell where life is out to get you. Even the simplest things can make you panic. But with the bad comes the good, you can be feeling awful and accomplish the smallest thing which makes you remember anxiety is only temporary. Anxiety and depression sufferers are among the strongest people in the world because we have lived through hell and survived!

It is the worst experience of your life. Constantly looking over your shoulder waiting for something that will never happen to happen. Being sad all the time and nothing makes you happy any more. Trying to act like everything is okay when you know for a fact it's not. Being afraid to make mistakes

Having depression is like having a constant cloud of apathy loom over your day-to-day life whereas anxiety is the feeling of seeing the cloud and worrying about when it'll all come pouring down.

It's basically like you have been thrown into the deep end and you can't seem to find your way back to the top. It can be suffocating, like it's eating at you. But the thing is, you can get out of the deep end, all it takes is just time and patience. My attitude used to be " I'm never going to be able to get out of this" but now I know that in time all will be okay, I will get there in my own time.

Depression is a feeling that is always heavy in your chest and you're feeling quite down always. You don't always feel as optimistic that you can be. It is indeed a crappy feeling that feels like it's always tugging at you to sometimes remind you that you are down. Anxiety is being aware of almost everything at once to make you feel in such a uncomfortable place like depression. Your heart is constantly beating fast from pressure of all sorts.

Depression is like you are drowning with lots of other people with you but they are breathing, you are the only one who cant breathe and you cant get back up to land for a long time after you hit rock bottom, or screaming in a room crowded with people but no one can hear you. Anxiety is like having people get closer and closer to you making you feel extremely uncomfortable, their eyes staring at you and only you, this happens for so long that you cant do anything but feel anxious and self conscious.

having depression feels like having everything that kept you moving forward drained from you. having anxiety can be like a constant overwhelming conversation your having with yourself but never noticed or a wave of emotions confusing the space of time you are in resulting symptoms

Having both depressing and anxiety is like having to run a huge race that everybody was looking forward too, and everybody was really rooting for you so you felt as if you had to do your best, but you have this really bad stomach bug that makes you want to throw up, so you want to not run because you know it's what's best for you, but you're so afraid to stay home and recover because everybody was cheering for you, so it makes you feel even more nauseous. It's like a never ending cycle, it's suffocating and when the anxiety gets bad, I become more upset and when I'm more upset, I can't build up the motivation to go out and do what I'm supposed to, but when I don't do it I become more anxious and it goes on and on and on. Usually nobody cares that I don't go out and do things, and they're really empathetic because they know I'm going through a hard time, but it's difficult to get that through my head.

no one can understand they can see a pattern but iis like having alcohol but you dont know what your aware off

it feels as though you're drowning, and everybody else is doing fine. And it makes you feel guilty that you're feeling this way, and you eventually just give up and you let the void succumb you.

Having both is really miserable. Because of depression, you don't even want to wake up in the morning to go to work or school, but because of anxiety, you feel worried about things will happen if you miss work or school. Then you force yourself to go. At your workplace/school, you don't have enough energy to do anything and just want to go home. However, when you go home, you feel anxious and down because you didn't finish things at work/school.

Everyone has feelings of depression or anxiety now and then. Chronic depression or anxiety, however, lasts for weeks, months, years, or a lifetime. Some days are better or worse than others. Generally speaking, having chronic depression and anxiety together can mean low self-esteem, feeling hopeless, fear of certain events or activities, avoiding situations that cause anxiety, avoiding people, and self-medicating (drugs or alcohol). With proper therapy and/or medication, symptoms can be greatly reduced, and quality of life can be improved.

It is as though the world hates you and you cannot find a way to make things better, no matter how hard you try to make things right. It's as though you are rollerblading through marbles. There's always one tiny little marble that will ruin the whole journey and you can't help but consider every freakin' marble in your path.

I have severe depression. And to be honest with you, I'm not going to sugar-coat it, because society seems to romanticise it, but it really isn't a good feeling at all. your days seem long and dark; at the back of your mind you can feel something there pestering you and trying to overshadow you like some kind of beast. when you have depression you have to fight that shadow everyday just to make it seem like you're totally fine. anxiety on the other hand, i'll give a scenario. imagine one day you woke up in a country you've never been to before, you don't know anybody, you have nothing but the clothes on your back, and you have to find your way to make a living and talk to people you have NEVER seen before. it's kind of like that, but every single day. that's what it's like to have depression and anxiety.

For me, anxiety is feeling like you can't get out. Just can't. No matter how hard you try. Like you're always skipping a step on this huge staircase and you can't reach the top or bottom.

I cannot speak for depression but I know that anxiety is where you are constantly worried or stressed out about things.

It's when you thing of everything you have to do but you can't get yourself out of bed. It's being on edge 24-7 yet all you do is lie in bed and watch the problems grow around you into monsters. Your chest hurts and your mind never slows down.

anxiety like being on edge and worrying about the littlest things and not knowing how to calm down and relax your body and wanting to get things done yet with depression is like having no motivation to do anything and feeling either nothing or everything.

Depression - is debilitating and distorts our outlook on ourselves and life in general. It makes us feel weak, exhausted, sad, hopeless and gives us body aches and tension. It takes away the joy of enjoying the things we once liked to do and isolates us and we become moody, irritable and angry. Anxiety - makes us feel anxious, nauseas, paranoid, afraid, our hearts beats fast, we have sweaty palms, and we can be terrifying. It makes us avoid going outside and socializing.

you feel like you've lost control of your mind and your body and that the depression is getting the better of you

I'm not going to lie, it's brutal. Anxiety makes you fear everything you do and makes you paranoid about every little thing that happens. And then depression comes in and makes sure that you think you are a worthless freak who can't stop worrying. It truly is awful to have both and my heart goes out to all the other people with both depression and Anxiety.

When you are afraid, or feeling sad, you often have a reason for having those feelings. For example you can be afraid of a test, or feel sad after hearing a bad message . With anxiety or depression, it's the same thing. The difference is: You can't think of an obvious reason. You just have those feelings.

It is different for each person. For me, having depression is a state where I am forced to slow down and develop compassion and patience for myself as I allow myself to heal. For me, having anxiety creates an opportunity to overcome fear and develop yet another victory to remind myself why I am worthy of love.

It's lonely. It feels like no one understands or actually cares about you... that you're a horrible person and that deep down you believe you deserve the worst life can bring.... "just because"

Everyone experiences those feelings. For some, Depression can feel like a heavy fog or weight that is blanketing you. Anxiety can feel like pins and needles and a constant state of hyper mental activity.

anxiety could lead to depression and depression could cause anxiety. it is quite inter related. being anxious makes you think negatively which makes you depressed