How to tell someone you're depressed without saying it?

Well, you can tell others that there are problems in your life or you can also say that there are some things that intesify your unhappiness. Overall you need to tell others your problem in order to get help.

I understand the desire to keep your personal problems to yourself, but I think clear communication is key. If the person needs to know, then you should try to be clear with them. If you don't feel like you can tell them plainly what you are going through, then perhaps they aren't someone who needs to know.

Maybe the best way to tell them is the truth but if that’s not an option just try explaining what depression is and that you feel sad or just say google depression

Express to a person you trust what emotions you have been feeling lately such as stress or anxiety or the feeling of being overwhelmed. Explain to them what you are going through and how it makes you feel. They should then begin to understand what you’re going through.

I feel tired, emotionally and mentally. Like I can barely get out of bed in the morning or I don’t enjoy the same things anymore.

You can tell the weather so disturbing. And people annoying outside. I think I need fresh air or I need to go beach

If it’s recent you can try something like I’m not feeling like myself lately. I’m feeling a bit down or low. If it’s been ongoing for a while you can try I just don’t enjoy the things I used to, it’s hard to find motivation and purpose sometimes, getting out of bed in the morning is hard. Those are all just ways of indirectly saying it. Besides that actions speak louder than words. People who love you usually pick on without you having to mention it. If they don’t, that’s ok some are just not as observant. Doesn’t mean they don’t love you.

You could always physically show it. For example, always look down, answer quietly to questions, show that you've lost interest in daily activities. Act like no one in the world will ever love you and you're just absolutely hopeless. You can walk away from people or hide, and you can even possibly cry if you feel like you can, or you just want to let that emotion out.You could dress in more simple clothes, and accessorize less. You could even put dark circles under your eyes and pretend you haven't been sleeping. You could also not do any school homework.

You can say that you're feeling lack of motivation to do anything in your daily activites. You lose your motivation and willingness to even do anything. You felt that everything you do is pointless and will never change anything. You felt that anything you do will be the same and won't change or improve anything in your life. You feel like everone around you, are not helpful and you felt alone and unable to do anything right. You felt that everything in your life is useless and pointless because nothing can really helped. You just felt everything is pointless.

To my mind, depression is like losing taste for life. I would use this taste metaphor to share my feelings. I would say for instance, if we share a meal or if I can relate to a dinner experience, that even if I usually enjoy this or that food, today this food does not nourrish me or has no texture. Or that I could not feel any more the taste of the food I am eating as if my tongue was a kind of sleeping beauty immersed in some kind of anesthesia. In a nutshell, I would maybe try to express through food tasting the fact that I do not have any more the same ability to feel what is usually good for me.