What does depression feel like?

It sucks. Especially at first. And the middle part. You have good days and bad days. I learned what my triggers were for anxiety and depression and try to work around them. Its not necessarily being completely broken and anxious 24/7, it is more like just going through the motions day by day.

Having both of these problems together is very difficult. Depression causes mild anxiety alone, and having GAD or social anxiety disorder on top of the depression seems to only make things worse for the person who is suffering. Depression causes feelings of nothing, loneliness, anxiety, and sadness at times. Anxiety causes depressive episodes to be escalated due to the nervousness of being depressed in the first place.

Depression is a type of sadness you anger you get sometimes randomly. And anxiety is like being worried about something a lot

It's a big struggle, but it can be managable. In my experience, it feels like you're afraid of being a failure, and you're scared of wasting your life away, but you have no motivation to make changes, or live life to the full. But, with the right support you can get through it:)

One way to put it is like this. Depression can make it so that you can't care enough about anything, while anxiety will make you care too much about everything. Having both together is unbearable. Depression has many different faces, as does anxiety, but from my personal experience, there are two big ones in depression. One side of it is when you can't feel happy, and nothing helps you feel anything positive or good. You're not just sad, you're incapable of seeing things or feeling things in a good way. It's why when people say cheer up, or that "you just need to decide to be happy", that it can drive me nuts. The other side to this is when you can't feel anything at all. Positive or negative, the feelings and emotions are muted if you can even feel them. It can be difficult to get past either one, but once you find something or someone that makes you feel good about yourself, it can be what you need.

It is like having an herd of elephants running over your chest and also over any thought of yours which has the slightest positive background. And when the elephants are out of sight they just leave emptiness

It is both a heavy and empty feeling. Imagine a black and white, silent movie, in which you are its spectator, all while living inside it all.

For Depression... It's the feeling of not wanting to wake up and take on the day everyday. It's the feeling of hopelessness and sadness. It's the feeling of everything closing in around you as you struggle to fight your mind daily. It's the feeling of loneliness even if you have many friends. For Anxiety, it's the feeling that you're in danger, it's like you are losing control of your life and you have constant racing thoughts along with physical pain. Anxiety can turn minutes into hours... It feels like there's no way out...

It is like having the worst of both worlds. When fear and hopelessness collide, the outcome is never pretty. For those of us who struggle with both, it is a constant battle.

It is debilitating. You continually think negatively, you lose hope, and you see no way out or no way to get better from your condition. It is a tragic disease to have. I have went through both of them, but eventually made the decision that I did not want to feel this way anymore. Depression and Anxiety make it hard for you to come to that realization, but if you do just get fed up with poor feelings you too can overcome it. Remember that they are only temporary, if you tackle them. Some people; however, have diseases that predispose them to these conditions, and should seek medical help. The majority of people with these conditions can be helped with CBT, which is what I used to help myself overcome the grips of Anxiety and Depression.