What does depression feel like?

When you have depression you feel low, when you are anxious you can feel out of control, such like you are not in a state of calm

Feeling upset or empty all of the time and when you actually decide to fight it and get better you worry that you can't because it's too hard or you're afraid to tell other. This makes you even more upset and it goes in a cycle. I think

Anxiety and Depression are very familiar to me. Anxiety is, for example, think of that feeling you get in your stomach when you have to speak in front of people or do something you don't like doing. It's basically that feeling all the time. Rapid heartbeat and breathing problems are just a few of my symptoms. Depression is like seeing everything in gray. Depression makes everything seem alot less happy.

depression is like closing myself in a dark room filled with endless thoughts without windows or any place from where light or fresh air can enter and the only thing that is with me is negativity. anxiety feels like being in the middle of a circle of fire that is reducing in size every sec as I am approaching the situation that I scared of and I am asked to jump outside it before the fire gets me, when I don't know how to jump.

It's painful. It's like always being on edge but then not having the energy to do anything. Anxiety all the time is especially horrible.

it is like thinking that people around you just do not notice you and does not give crap about you while you were tring to gain your cofidence back

it sucks . you feel like its the end of the world . one feels numb and weak and not feeling like doing anything . everything inside will ache

Here's a clever metaphor - Depression is like trying to peel a potato with a potato. You try and try and try, and can never peel it. Eventually you give up in frustration. And everyone else doesn't understand, they tell you to peel it, some tell you to use a potato peeler and hand you another potato. And the problem is no one else understands how much you are struggling unless they have walked in your shoes. Another way to see it - it's like walking upstream in a river. The people on the banks tell you to work harder, that its all in your head and that you aren't trying. Some say snap out of it, just get out of the water, but they don't try to help you out. Sometimes the current is strong and you feel like you are drowning, and other times it's a shallow pool of water and the travel isn't that bad. But you feel as though you are never out of the water, and that you can never drop your guard. Some people may try and help you out, some may try and sabotage you. But all you can do is fight till you are freed from the river.

its like being a in hole feel like you more you dig the deeper it gets and harder it is pull yourself out of that hole to begin with as well unless you have a great support around you and professional help too

It feels like you're drowning. It feels like you've fallen into a black hole and it feels like there's no way out. It feels like you're in a room split in two by a glass wall. On one side of the room is everyone else and you're on the other side.. Alone. Staring at everyone else wondering why they are all put there and you were put here.