What does depression feel like?

Most people think of depression as simply "being sad all the time." While this can be a form of depression, it can manifest in all sorts of other ways as well. Depression can feel more like apathy -- losing interest in things you usually enjoy, finding it hard to concentrate on anything, and being tired all the time or sleeping a lot. Or it can cause you to be much more irritable than usual, or to engage in reckless or self-destructive behavior. Any combination of these symptoms can be indications of depression. Everyone feels depressed sometimes -- we may be down in the dumps for a few hours, a day, or even a week. But if you feel this way all the time, you may have clinical depression and you should seek the help of a mental health professional. Please remember that if you find yourself with the urge to self harm or with thoughts of suicide, you do not have to deal with it alone. Please call the hotline at 1-800-SUICIDE, or, specifically for young people, 1-800-273-TALK.

Depression is different for everyone, but in a lot of cases it's the inabilty to motivate yourself to do anything, you feel sad for no reason, and you can't get out of bed without a struggle

Depression isn't just about feeling sad, it's a big mix of emotions to the point where you feel numb inside; you feel like nothing matters and you don't care. No motivation. Nothing.

It's like being sad but extremely and for a long time and often gives people weird thoughts or/and feelings.

Depression affects the mind and body and you get into this slump where it becomes serious enough to affect your daily activities

Feels like not having much will to do much and everything appears a chore ...

It feels like sliding down into a deep well where all your energy is sapped away by the cold and the dark. You know you are in the well, but you can't get out on your own and are losing the energy to keep trying. No one else can see the well, feel your weariness, or feel the numbing cold but you, so they don't understand why you don't just climb out already, into the sun. They lose patience with you and blame you for falling in, when you did nothing on your own to get there, had been fighting to stay out, but now that you are there, you don't have enough strength left to climb out.

It feels like you can’t really do some sort of stuff you used to do and for the normal people they feel happy or sad depending on their situation and if they see a depressed person they think that these people are trying to cause drama or they are negative or trying to fail and not caring if they are in college or in work, so to the normal people you can’t really blame them because they don’t know the pain you’re dealing with and the thoughts that comes to your mind and that you actually cant stop it in any way ,it feels like the happy part of you that used to enjoy life has ended and died and it feels like a castle with a lot of doors that everytime you’re trying to get out through one of these doors you ended up facing a wall these doors lead to nothing but a walls of bad thoughts and negativity ,and once you be able to break on of them you will be you will finally get out of this huge castle of pain and suffering.

People feel depressed for one of the following reasons: 1) They lack vision or they don't have a satisfying goal in their life to head to. 2) They feel that they deserve better life than what they currently have and feel powerless as they cannot change their present. Lets start with 1, you have to have a goal in life something to achieve something to work towards and look forward to, if you had previously had a goal and worked towards it but didn't work out because you couldn't achieve it you need to understand that it is ok and you need to set new goal that feel satisfying for you. Then my second point is very straight forward if you feel you are not happy with your current life look at people who are less fortunate than you first then get up and change your life because you can do it and you are not the sum of your circumstances as you might think. I hope this helped and good luck!

Depression feels like a lack of light, a complete lack of emotions. Except, for emptiness. Just mainly a lack of feeling... and just a black hole. That is all it feels like to me. I have had that feeling, I know it all too well. The thought of never being okay, never being able to smile, or laugh. Just the feeling to constantly wanting to not exist, or breathe, or function... like I said, a complete black hole. It isn't an ideal way to live, but I must say, it is easy, and has no complication. But it truly doesn't have to be that way.