What does depression feel like?
“A non-emotion. Being frozen. Total confusion. Like the whole world has changed. The smallest of tasks take monumental energy to begin.”
Ravinder
“It varies, from total all-consuming sorrow and sadness to a completely dull numbness which strips you of your emotions, senses and motivation.”
Gareth
“A total pervading darkness which feels like it’s drowning me. It is living under water with everything which is going on around you being muffled and piercingly loud at the same time.”
Jo
“I was constantly tired and regularly overslept. I rarely received any sort of signal from my body to tell me that I needed food until I felt faint, at which point I would overeat.”
Hayley
“Complete loss of hope, energy and belief in myself or the future. An ability to function at a most basic level – wanting to sleep all day, not face the world at all and a feeling that there’s just not point to anything. In an episode I have a tremendous feeling of being a complete failure.”
Alison
“It feels like you’ve been evicted from your own body and taken over by a black monster who keeps you in a small room where you scream and scream but nobody can hear you. You feel as though you are bad any everything you touch is bad and everything that goes wrong in your life is a punishment. I have a sense of derealisation where I can see myself from outside my body and my body is empty. I don’t feel like a real person anymore.”
Juliet
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