Those who have never been in the throes of depression can't imagine what it feels like. But you have been there. How would you best describe it?
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Like the longest,lousiest,most rotten time of your life.





Waking up in the morning, only to pull the covers back over my head so I can go back to sleep, or just laying there, trying not to think of anything. There ...
It is like I have been drinking hot mercury





It all started when I was nineteen years old. I had been severely abused, sexually, physically and mentally for years. A big part of the abuse was punishment....
like a roller coaster it starts out slow and climaxs





Depression made feel like there was no light at the end of the tunnel.It made me secluded, not only to my home but my bed. At times,it was so bad the light ...
Darkness Descends
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At the beginning, it just feels like a regular funk that everyone has from time to time. But the days pass, and the darkness gets darker, and all the light ...
Solitary Confinement
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You wanna sleep all the time, but want nothing more than to be awake. You don't wanna live, but want nothing more than to live again. You don't wanna ...
dark night of the soul
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Well,all the joy left me. I feel alone in a room full of friends. Everything I touched went wrong. I slept, but didn't rest. I cried a lot - at work, in ...
a terrible nightmare
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It feels like a bad dream you just want to end but there is no end in sight. Your brain goes a million miles a minute and all you can think about for the ...
Here's how I feel...
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Like you enjoy nothing. You know you should be grateful you don't have cancer, but you believe everyone's life, including your own, would be better if ...
I don't know who I am anymore
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From being a confident,fun loving,outgoing girl I've changed into this anxious,worried, constantly on edge shell of my former self. Although I have been ...
My Personal Abyss
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Feel distant and unattached from life.
Visually seems unreal
Appears grey and fuzzy much of time
Don't care, have no real opinions on anything.
Feel ...
dark grey cloud
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You feel sad and lonely. You feel worthless, as if you don't have a purpose in life, like your just existing and that's it.
A waking hell
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It started off as anxiety - mainly health related. I began to worry about every symptom I felt, every twitch, tingle, missed breath - everything. I watch,...
Beyond the shallow
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Depression for me is seen as a race. You start off ahead, but it catches up, on your tail for the longest time until you finally decide to give in and ...
Locked in a Box you Built Yourself
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Depression feels like you are locked in a box that you built and put yourself in. No matter how hard you try to blame the people around you, you know that ...
No Point to Anything
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Depression for me is feeling that there is no point to anything,that no matter what I do, what's the point, since when I die, there's nothing left of me,...
Cannot see the wood through the trees
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It is like a tunnel in which you are unable to escape. You cannot turn-around or look sideways, only into the blank ahead of you. For no apparent reason ...
The Daily Living in Hell
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My depression starts with feeling hopeless about everything. I don't want to do anything except exist or maybe just be a zombie??? When I think about ...