What depression feels like
I can’t say it feels like sadness because it’s way more than that. Sadness could not describe even part of it. It’s unbearable, mixed with disappointment, guilt, hopelessness, helplessness, anger and who knows what else. Those emotions are so strong that it hurts. The pain gets so much that it physically hurts. You feel it in your chest, stomach and then in your entire body. It hurts so fucking much that it’s unbearable no matter how strong you are. At some point even breathing gets hard and requires too much effort. You find yourself rocking back and forth in desperate attempts to calm yourself down but nothing seems to work. Your mind is a mess. You’re thoughts are fucked up. Sometimes you break down and cry your eyes out until you’re so exhausted that you can’t get up from the floor. Other times you feel the same pain, you feel like you’re being torn apart on the inside but no tears seem to fall. All you can do is stare blankly at the wall. Sometimes depression is just emptiness, you might not even feel pain, you just don’t feel anything.
Depression is not just a phase, it’s not something you wanted or wished for, it’s not something you can get over in a day, it’s not something you can ever forget in your life. It’s when you’re so broken and damaged that dying seems like the only way out.







