How would you describe depression?

Depression is a feeling of overwhelming numbness and apathy which makes it difficult to function. The emotions you are able to feel are usually negative, and when you feel positive emotions, you are unable to fully enjoy them because you know eventually you'll go back to the baseline state of numbness. You lose interest in everything from eating to hobbies you usually love, and you have trouble clearing the fog in your mind enough to be productive. This in turn can lead to feelings of self-loathing and frustration.

Depression is like a war that goes on inside your mind that only you know about, Sometimes that war comes out of your mind and ends up in cuts on the outside of your body and that's when people start to know that there's a war going on inside your mind. Sometimes this war ends peacefully, Sometimes it ends horribly.

Depression is like an out of body experience. You know you're there but your mind feels likes it's elsewhere. It's like you're a dark pit of despair and every time you wake up in the morning you have to put on this shell of "happiness". You have to act like everything is alright to make others comfortable and to avoid the constant question of "what's wrong?" It's wanting to cry every second of every day, even if it's over something simple. It's wanting to sit in your pajamas all day and eat or not eat. It's wanting to be alone because when you feel pain that severe and real, distance seems like the only option because nobody will EVERY truly understand what you're feeling.

depression is a fog, when it hits, it eliminates your vision, you can't see clearly. it grows denser and denser until you can't see even the things which you knew were true and helpful. it goes away sometimes, but it's still around the edges waiting to cover your vision again. and there is nothing you can do to make it go away. i saw this on tumblr, and honestly this is the best description i've read of depression, coming from a person suffering from depression.

Feeling of getting trapped in a colorless zone. Surrounded by joy and laugh but can't feel them as how others feel, losing emotion and passion on most of the things in life. It's really bad

Depression isn't always sadness and despair; it's often also the feeling of emptiness, of lack of emotions. It is crushing and consuming.

Depression can be described in so many different ways. It all depends on the stage of depression you are in. It can go from a black cloud over you to being in a hole so deep you can't get out.

Being surrounded in a black hole that I cant get out , that drives away all the positive things in life

I feel depression is one's own mindset for a situation in life. Every person has different outlook for everything in life.depression is just one outlook. One person can be depressed about something and some other may not even take it seriously. It is good to have positive attitude in every situation ,then depression won't be able to effect you.

a feeling of not caring about anyone or anything. Not eating well. Don't want any one cone to my house, call me, or send me an email. A feeling like I want to hurt myself but don"t have the courage to do it.