How would you describe depression?

Depression, atleast to me is feeling empty. Feeling like everything is meaningless. Being constantly sad.. And most importantly, feeling helpless.

Depression to me is someone who wants to give up on things. Its someone who rather be isolated from everyone because of how down they feel. Its a struggle they are dealing with that got them to that place and dont know how to get out of it.

Something that eats you away from the inside, a little black monster in your head that tells you that you're worthless and you can't handle it anymore

Depression is this soul-sucking thing that makes your life terrible. No one should ever have to go through it, but millions of people do everyday. It's a very serious thing that more people need to take seriously. In my own opinion, it feels like being empty and dead on the inside and just waiting for the outside to be the same way.

A pit of nothingness, you feel helpless and worthless and you want to disappear. Depression feels like trying for centuries to succeed, but never doing it.

I would describe depression as a feeling that holds on for dear life and pulls you deeper and deeper eventually taking you to rock bottom, sometimes and tricking your brain to make you think that you need to harm yourself to feel better. Sometimes also making it feel like comitting suicide is the only answer and it is not. That is why us Listeners are here, we can help.

Depression is like a shadow. It is the darkness in the light. It may not always be prominent, but it is there. Sometimes it isn't noticeable, but some days it's just too heavy to ignore. Depression is not a scale from 1 to 10. It is individual to every person who suffers from it. To some people, it is set off by catalysts, and to others it just exists without any rhyme or reason. Depression is wanting to go on a walk on a nice day but not having the mental energy to do so. Depression hurts... but you are never alone in it, no matter how much it feels that way.

Well for me depression is prolonged sadness without any logical reason because of which you feel empty and hopeless.

It's like when you're drowning... You keep reaching for the surface but no matter how much you try, you just can't seem to get yourself up so you can breathe. You feel helpless and hopeless. Very scared, lonely, and sometimes even angry.

Anger without enthusiasm results in a state of mind called depression. Its mainly due to lack of expressing our view.