How would you describe depression?

It feels as if you're dragged into an endless cycle of worrying, sadness and emptiness, and it doesn't stop, no matter how much you want it to.

Depression is something what makes you see in everything the worst even if it is not bad at all. It's like wearing sunglasses in the dark.

I'm under a duvet, a massive one. I'm weighed down with weights to the bed and I am weak. I can see light peeking from a side of the duvet. Occasionally I will be able to stick a hand out to see if someone would pull me out. But every time, I am ignored or they can't pull me out. They help, but I am still trapped. But soon, someone will pull me out. I know it.

I would describe it as a feeling where you have no control over how you are feeling. You know what you are doing might be detrimental to your mental state, but you do it anyway because you don't feel like you are in control.

Sometimes it feels as if your soul has gone for a walk and you're left trying to cope as just a body

Like a dark cloak or person berating you and dragging you down. Or like a chain holding you to he bottom of the ocean under all the doubts and insecurities that act as water. Trying to drown you.

Feeling like you just don't care about anything or anyone. Being numb. Things that used to make you happy just fell like every day things. Nothing is really special anymore.

Depression, especially it's severe form is NOT mere sadness, it is a debilitatingly paralytic medical condition which rots one's mind from the inside out. It causes immeasurable mental pain. Those afflicted by this sickness suffer in a way that's inhumane, but yet since we look fine on the outside, we're looked at as weak and defected, and shunned as if we have mental HIV. Normal people think they can relate, because we've all been through the blues, and they apparently have the solutions, SNAP OUT OF IT and THINK POSITIVE. Do you tell a person with diabetes that if they think positive magically insulin will start being produced? It's the same thing, in the former, the brain is not functioning properly, and in the latter it's the pancreas. The following is a little taste of what full blown clinical depression feels like.... "What I had begun to discover is that, mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this cauldron, because there is no escape from this smothering confinement, it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion."​

When you become upset and lose sight of the things that make you happy in your life. Depression makes you act like a duller version of yourself and you lose the real you for a while.

depression is a feeling that you have lost something but having no clue when and where you last had it. then one fine day you realize what you lost is yourself.