What does depression feel like?

It is likely to feel sad and think there is no use in life anymore engulfed with fear guilt remorse and all negative thoughts

You feel like nothing matters, like you're worthless and no one understands you. With depression you feel empty, numb or an uncontrollable sadness. With anxiety you feel overwhelming waves of panic and stress.

Tired all the time/overwhelmed a lot/angry over the tiniest things/crying in the shower/ telling everyone I can't come out/and SO lonely

Depression feels like there's a demon inside of you eating it's way out. There's a little bug inside you're ear telling you you're worthless and will never do anything right.

It's not the greatest thing in the world.it's like feeling sad and scared all the time and no one understands you.

sometimes it feels like sudden sadness, over nothing or very small reasons, things you dont think would set you off, but for some reason do. sometimes its a lack of feeling. you want to be happy, you want to feel and laugh at the jokes your friends are telling, but you for some reason you cant explain, cant. it can be not feeling like cleaning, or enjoying anything, even getting out of bed. you might wanna try, but for some reason you cant sometimes its a cloud in your chest. with every breath you feel it, and it can be suffocating. sometimes it hurts. its sadness and pain and crying and tears it can be no motivation to do anything. what you need to, what you love to do.

Depression feels like this overhead weight that's always there. It makes you sad and tired. Anxiety makes you feel like something is coming and it makes you sweat and shake and cry.

It's like something really heavy always keeps pushing you to the ground, so you just lie down and accept the weight on you chest, struggling with every breath. And though you really don't care, at the same time you care so much it eats you alive.

to me it sometimes means feeling nothing at all and it hurts, no matter how hard you try to be happy you cant seem to even if your closest friends are with you it doesn't seem to work. It means you are tired all the time and just want to sleep though your thoughts keep you up until midnight. You want to cry randomly and feel the need to hide under a desk sometimes if things get too intense. Even if you have a good day it can hit randomly in the middle of a laugh with your friends you are hit with sadness that makes the laughter fade into nothing.

You can't really have a pinpoint answer for this. Overall, it's a really dreadful feeling. Although you can mask it up with a smile and some laughs, throughout the day you just feel like crap. You feel tired all the time and everything just makes you nervous. It's like walking in a forest for years and years and all the owls and birds are staring down at you.

depression feels like a pit. a hole in your heart and brain, it feels heavy and like its a 100lbs weight just dragging you down.

It feels like loosing all hope. Sometimes suicidal thoughts come to your mind in extreme conditions.

And empty cup unable to be filled, feeling alien in your own skin, alone and afraid of yourself and the world.

You can't describe it 😪

Like nothing does or ever will matter. Depression is like sinking through every single day and night ,isolated and alone, even when you're surrounded by people. It's wanting everything to end and not having to feel the grief anymore. It's knowing you'll never be happy again.

Imagine being in a dark room, the door is locked and you have to find your hope is this sinister room. But you must be careful. Because false hope is waiting for you to grab a hold on to it.. waiting to show you where the light switch is only to show you that the hope you heard was only your imagination... Now you sit there, in this room with your worst enemy, waiting for this door to open. That is what depression feels like....

Depression can show in many ways, but it often feels like a constant struggle to keep your head above water. It's as if every little task feels like a huge obstacle.

depression feels different to everyone, to me it feels like I have no energy, it causes me to feel like a zombie, I walk around and look like me but on the inside i have no feeling.

It's not a great experience. It sucks the life out of you. It makes everything in life seem hopeless, pointless and not worth it. Everything is painful and you're always down no matter what. If you can manage to pull yourself up, it's not for long. Sometimes you're just empty and you don't feel anything.

To me, depression feels like you're walking upstream through a current strong enough to pull you under 4 times over. There are others with you but they are walking along the banks, telling you to "just get out of the water." But instead of extanding hand to help, they just move on and leave you behind. Every once in a while, you find a rock that is strong enough for you to lean on, and you can rest for a bit. But the rocks always get tired of holding you up, and when they let go, you left drowning, thrown 50 ft back again. And nothing is harder than standing up in that current, when everything in you is telling you just how much easier things would be if you just let yourself get dragged under...

Depression feels like you and the world are nothingness. That nothing can't be felt or experienced which leaves you sad and wanting. You want to go out and be with people and have fun but there is no drive or motivation, it's just a nice idea. All you really want to do is be alone in silence without thinking or doing anything.

My body aches like I have the flu but I know I don’t. I feel tired, drained, and achy all over. I keep asking myself what is wrong with me, why can’t I just snap out of it, even though I already know the answer. I didn’t sleep well at all last night I kept waking up to a pool of my own sweat. I am so hot that I can’t keep the covers on me but as soon as I take them off I’m freezing cold, it’s a horrible feeling. I could barely find the motivation to get out of bed this morning to go to work and I love my job. I feel I am beginning to hate my job forcing myself to get up and go, which in turn makes me extremely anxious because I cannot afford to lose my job. Also, how do you even explain that to your employer that you are so depressed you can barely make it to work, it’s sad and embarrassing and I feel they wouldn’t even believe me if I told them. One thing with depression is you become a very great actor; you try and make people believe you’re happy so they don’t see the sadness. Also, it’s a sadness that I can’t explain, it’s a feeling of sadness even though nothing has happened to make me sad, I can’t explain it or make it go away. What is even worse is having anxiety and depression at the same time. It’s an overwhelming sadness and overwhelming fear all at the same time. I am torn between worrying about life and dreading life. It’s like I am standing in a crowded room screaming for help and not a single person even looks my way. To me anxiety is the worse of the two. It cripples me in fear, with a feeling of not being able to breath and sweating so much that my body is drenched. The fear makes me isolate myself from everyone, with this overwhelming feeling of being judged, which in turn makes me feel so alone. I feel as if no one cares about me like I am all alone in this. It is taking everything I got not to cry right now while I am sitting at work. It’s so embarrassing I can’t stand it. I feel like such a loser even though I know I am strong. It’s been hours and I still can’t shake this feeling. I feel shaky, light headed, and I keep feeling like I am going to throw up. I am so hazy I can barely focus; it’s like being in a bad dream. I’m exhausted and have no motivation, I just want to lie in bed and never get out.

Depression and anxiety makes one very vulnerable and unable to make life enhancing decisions. The focus turns to immediate short term decisions which may not be helpful in the long term. They both clog decision making process and blurs clarity. The focus becomes on the individual and the outside world is seen as a threat many times. It leaves the person stressed and affects his/her overall contribution to society.

Separately they're bad enough. Together, it's like I am either worried sick or too apathetic for words.

Like you're lost. Empty inside. Don't know how to express your emotions. Loss of interest. Feeling like you don't want to live.

Depression is actually a very serious illness. It's very important to talk about your problems with someone and to receive treatment with a professional if it's necessary as soon as possible depending of your condition. To accept you have depression is something really brave, to accept it is to challenge it to become someone who is fighting and finding a journey to discover ourselves and our own strengths and love. The most important thing is to keep hope really high, it's always a light.

It feels like a heavy anchor beneath you that you cannot move. Whenever you think, it is there. It makes you think everything is pointless and shallow

For me depression felt like a permanent night, were there was no light, no hope and no faith. It felt like it would never end.

It feels isolating, lonely, scary and overwhelming. It feels like everything you're worrying about is the be-all and end-all of all things but at the same time you're worrying irrationally but it's hard to convince yourself to not worry because what if, just what if whatever you're worrying about might actually be something to be worried about?

It seems like the world around you is collapsing, darkness has taken over you, your heart is sinking in a deep deep pit and it seems like there will never be a way out and that you might just... die. I have battled with depression. Currently I am depressed in regards to work stress and I feel like this is the moment to express exactly what I feel truthfully. However, I am not going to fall for the neagtivity that is pulling me down. I will get up and fight! I will not let myself down! Myself needs me and if I lose myself how am I going to attain my goals. I want to achieve so much! I want to travel the world! So I am just going to take a deep breathe, think about my blessings, thank God for them, forgive all who brought misery to me. Then I will smile, yeah that's a natural smile right there! Now I feel so much better! Hoorah! :D