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'