What does depression feel like?

Depression and anxiety is an experience that can affect people differently and in various ways. Feeling overwhelmed, unhappy, alone, not understood, empty and a feeling of hopelessness makes it tough to function. You feel like life will never be worthwhile again. This is an abnormal experience that affects everyone at some time in their life.

To have anxiety and depression is like having this little cloud that is constantly floating around your head sometimes the cloud is white and fluffy and happy. But other times the could is dark and thundering. No matter how hard you try to change the dark cloud quickly, it is better to let the dark cloud heal over time. One day that day cloud will be light and fluffy and only bounce back to dark and rainy occasionally. Things always turn out better.

Its different for everybody, and theres no way to describe the general feeling. However, it's like being in a place where you feel alone, and like there's no way out.

People's experience with depression and/or anxiety can vary widely from person to person. There are different types of anxiety and depression for one thing, and people experience different combination of symptoms, have different triggers, and cope in different ways. These mean two people with depression may hear each others stories and relate very closely to each other, or very little. It may help to read the definitions of each illness, talk to someone if you are concerned you have anxiety and/or depression, or seek out the personal stories of people struggling with these illnesses to understand the illnesses more intimately.

It is difficult, because you feel you cannot handle what you are experiencing. You feel alone, or scared. Always anticipating something going wrong.

It is like to be under the surface and to fight to get over the surface to get air. It is hard and exhausting.

depression is when you don’t really care about anything, anxiety is when you care too much about everything and having both is just like what

To be anxious or nervous about something Is to anticipate something happening or to worry about the end of a thing with anticipation

It feels like a hole in the pit of your chest. Like you know that you could be rid of it, but can't.

They both feel like a trap..you feel the pain in your chest and throat at times,you get disturbing thoughts,you feel like doing crazy things(any kinds of addictions or addictive behaviour) to get out of that trap..your own feelings and body become a very painful thing..your own thoughts rise against you.