How would you describe depression?

It feels like having an imaginary friend that keeps doing things against your will and sucks out all of your energy at the same time

i would describe it as just a very dark place in your head, you're still in there looking out of your eyes but you cant stop what you're doing, something has taken over your brain and it just makes you feel alone and lost in yourself and like you dont have control over your thoughts and sometimes words and actions

depression is a very strong and controlling mental illness, but remember its just a label, and once you label yourself with it everything that happens to you will be because you are "depressed"

Depression is basically when you give up on yourself and the situations you have in your surroundings. You feel like there is no point to you actions, you lose interest in your hobbies. Simple tasks become difficult. Everything can seem dark and sucked empty of any significance. A depressed person is likely to contemplate things like death a lot more.

The worst thing in the world. Its a never ending roller coaster. But you aren't alone. I think it's something like 80% of people in the world have experienced it.

I would describe it personally (as someone who has had it for two years) as an extended period of time where you are constantly feeling only pessimistic emotions and you find it very hard to become motivated.

In my personal experience, I would describe depression as this: It is as if you were stuck in a box. There is nothing in the box except for you. You are left there, stuck with your thoughts which often overcloud you. The box is dark. This is all you can see for the majority of the time. However... every now and then you get enough strength to move yourself to the side of the box where you can see outside a tiny hole. Finally, you can see light. But it is not long until you make your way back into the middle of the box where is is dark and lonely once again.

The sun is shining all around you but you're sitting in a rain cloud, bundled up because you're freezing. You can feel the Suns warmth but it isn't really impacting you at all.

Like falling into a bottomless pit that is completely dark and inescapable. You feel like you're suffocating. You feel like there is no hope and no end to your suffering.

I would describe it as a plethora of feelings that mesh in to something that can effectively ruin someone's life. lack of motivation, anger, numbness, sadness and so many other emotions can be felt if one has depression. in short, depression is something no one wants to feel