What does depression feel like?

And empty cup unable to be filled, feeling alien in your own skin, alone and afraid of yourself and the world.

Like nothing does or ever will matter. Depression is like sinking through every single day and night ,isolated and alone, even when you're surrounded by people. It's wanting everything to end and not having to feel the grief anymore. It's knowing you'll never be happy again.

depression feels like a pit. a hole in your heart and brain, it feels heavy and like its a 100lbs weight just dragging you down.

It feels like loosing all hope. Sometimes suicidal thoughts come to your mind in extreme conditions.

You can't describe it 😪

It's not a great experience. It sucks the life out of you. It makes everything in life seem hopeless, pointless and not worth it. Everything is painful and you're always down no matter what. If you can manage to pull yourself up, it's not for long. Sometimes you're just empty and you don't feel anything.

Depression and anxiety makes one very vulnerable and unable to make life enhancing decisions. The focus turns to immediate short term decisions which may not be helpful in the long term. They both clog decision making process and blurs clarity. The focus becomes on the individual and the outside world is seen as a threat many times. It leaves the person stressed and affects his/her overall contribution to society.

Separately they're bad enough. Together, it's like I am either worried sick or too apathetic for words.

Imagine being in a dark room, the door is locked and you have to find your hope is this sinister room. But you must be careful. Because false hope is waiting for you to grab a hold on to it.. waiting to show you where the light switch is only to show you that the hope you heard was only your imagination... Now you sit there, in this room with your worst enemy, waiting for this door to open. That is what depression feels like....

depression feels different to everyone, to me it feels like I have no energy, it causes me to feel like a zombie, I walk around and look like me but on the inside i have no feeling.