16 Analogies for Depression
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Date: 2023-08-20
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TheFoxfiend
Depression is like a sac you are forced to carry, and every time you make a decision to take action and do something you add a brick to that sac. Sure, the first few thing, get up, get dressed, get breakfast, that's a few bricks, not a big issue, but the weight is starting to get to you. Then you are forced to make another decision to act, say go to work, or get groceries, or whatever, and you have to do it and there are several steps along the way so several bricks are added to that sac. It hurts, but you can't drop the sac, but you start looking at decisions and start thinking to yourself do I really need to do that? Perhaps I can put it off a bit because you are dreading adding unnecessary bricks to the sac. Then you go to bed and wake up the next morning. Some of the bricks have disappeared, but not all of them, and you ask yourself do I need to get up? To get dressed for the day? Or even eat breakfast, I'm not that hungry yet. Every decision starts being made around whether you feel up to carrying the extra weight, and you start neglecting things that others would consider important just to stave it off. And I do mean every decision, even ones that should be relaxation like choosing to play a game. And because you are in that mindset the world starts looking bleak cause everything has a weight to it that stays with you, and you don't know how many of those bricks you are going to lose over night, if any, cause sometimes you don't. And sometimes it becomes too much, and you cry, and you hope someone you sincerely trust is there because you are going to need them to pick you up, help put you back together. When it happens and you break and cry the sac might rip a little, and drop a few bricks, but it doesn't stay ripped, because the sac being broken is representative of you breaking, and you can't afford to let it break all the way and drop all the bricks because. well let's not talk about that, it's a bit dark.
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Depression is like a sac you are forced to carry, and every time you make a decision to take action and do something you add a brick to that sac. Sure, the first few thing, get up, get dressed, get breakfast, that's a few bricks, not a big issue, but the weight is starting to get to you. Then you are forced to make another decision to act, say go to work, or get groceries, or whatever, and you have to do it and there are several steps along the way so several bricks are added to that sac. It hurts, but you can't drop the sac, but you start looking at decisions and start thinking to yourself do I really need to do that? Perhaps I can put it off a bit because you are dreading adding unnecessary bricks to the sac. Then you go to bed and wake up the next morning. Some of the bricks have disappeared, but not all of them, and you ask yourself do I need to get up? To get dressed for the day? Or even eat breakfast, I'm not that hungry yet. Every decision starts being made around whether you feel up to carrying the extra weight, and you start neglecting things that others would consider important just to stave it off. And I do mean every decision, even ones that should be relaxation like choosing to play a game. And because you are in that mindset the world starts looking bleak cause everything has a weight to it that stays with you, and you don't know how many of those bricks you are going to lose over night, if any, cause sometimes you don't. And sometimes it becomes too much, and you cry, and you hope someone you sincerely trust is there because you are going to need them to pick you up, help put you back together. When it happens and you break and cry the sac might rip a little, and drop a few bricks, but it doesn't stay ripped, because the sac being broken is representative of you breaking, and you can't afford to let it break all the way and drop all the bricks because. well let's not talk about that, it's a bit dark.
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AudTrico
It feels like your mind is trapped in a cage of endless thoughts. No matter how much you try to find a way out, you can never find it because the thoughts are distracting you from finding the key. When you see the world outside, you long to be free, but your stuck there in that cage. Even though you're in the world, your mind isn't. Even when the people in your life try to find the key with you, it doesn't always work, but sometimes it does.
Once you finally find the key, you have a few moments of freedom before the world stuffs you back inside, but the lock & key gets switched out, so it continues being more and more difficult to find a way out.
but. instead of trying to find the key, get to know that cage. Why is it there, what's causing it to exist? Once you get to know those thoughts and the material making up the cage, instead of finding the key, make a hammer to tear it apart. Yes, a new cage can be built afterwards, but if there's no cage for a while, there's nothing to trap you inside of.
When those new cages are built, they tend to be easier to tackle, since you know the steps to breaking it apart. Though sometimes the thoughts come form a new material your not familiar with, which make it much harder. You just have to keep breaking those cages, show those thoughts you surrender to no one.
In other words, instead of finding a way out of the cage, destroy it for good. Don't try to flee from it, fight it. If you flee, it's still there to come after you.
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It feels like your mind is trapped in a cage of endless thoughts. No matter how much you try to find a way out, you can never find it because the thoughts are distracting you from finding the key. When you see the world outside, you long to be free, but your stuck there in that cage. Even though you're in the world, your mind isn't. Even when the people in your life try to find the key with you, it doesn't always work, but sometimes it does.
Once you finally find the key, you have a few moments of freedom before the world stuffs you back inside, but the lock & key gets switched out, so it continues being more and more difficult to find a way out.
but. instead of trying to find the key, get to know that cage. Why is it there, what's causing it to exist? Once you get to know those thoughts and the material making up the cage, instead of finding the key, make a hammer to tear it apart. Yes, a new cage can be built afterwards, but if there's no cage for a while, there's nothing to trap you inside of.
When those new cages are built, they tend to be easier to tackle, since you know the steps to breaking it apart. Though sometimes the thoughts come form a new material your not familiar with, which make it much harder. You just have to keep breaking those cages, show those thoughts you surrender to no one.
In other words, instead of finding a way out of the cage, destroy it for good. Don't try to flee from it, fight it. If you flee, it's still there to come after you.
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Jilliane
Reminds me of the quote that says Depression is like color blind, then people telling you how colorful the world is.
really may not make sense to y'all, but what helps me and why im still here is the lord! ik not all of you believes in him or anything! but he helped me with going through it, i don't often got it (breakdowns) now! but there sure is many times 'i am telling him i give up that i can't take it anymore. ' i cried onto him and he comforts me, reminds me of his promises!
ik not all of you may believe this or anything but i respect that! what im saying is i can't blame you truly of giving up, cuz ive been there but think of the future you'll be in if you didn't, and imagine recovering, your dreams. after all you're here for a reason you may think you aren't valuable, beautiful, enough or even matter!
but know that you are a warrior! you've been fighting for so long- you are not what you're parents say you are, your someone, teacher, THE WORLD. but really you do matter in God's eyes!
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Reminds me of the quote that says Depression is like color blind, then people telling you how colorful the world is.
really may not make sense to y'all, but what helps me and why im still here is the lord! ik not all of you believes in him or anything! but he helped me with going through it, i don't often got it (breakdowns) now! but there sure is many times 'i am telling him i give up that i can't take it anymore. ' i cried onto him and he comforts me, reminds me of his promises!
ik not all of you may believe this or anything but i respect that! what im saying is i can't blame you truly of giving up, cuz ive been there but think of the future you'll be in if you didn't, and imagine recovering, your dreams. after all you're here for a reason you may think you aren't valuable, beautiful, enough or even matter!
but know that you are a warrior! you've been fighting for so long- you are not what you're parents say you are, your someone, teacher, THE WORLD. but really you do matter in God's eyes!
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Albedo_Aria
I just want help at this point. I feel like Ive been depressed since last year, and its just a never ending emptiness and numbness that stopped me from feeling happiness or at least true happiness. My negative emotions are put at 200% while my positive emotions are put at 15%. I cant do anything. No matter how much I complain, cry, scream, hide, it wont go away. It doesnt help that Im home sick (Im a dorm student in a boarding school and family means a lot to me) I cant say anything because Ive been raised to bottle it up otherwise Id bother the people around me, and I feel as though I cant receive any proper help because I lash out or feel annoyed when someone offers me advice even though theyre just trying to help. I want this to stop. This is so hard and I dont want to keep living like this. This adds on to my already sh! tty mindset and it feels like I can just crumble into ashes at any moment. I want help. I want it so bad. But I cant have it.
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I just want help at this point. I feel like Ive been depressed since last year, and its just a never ending emptiness and numbness that stopped me from feeling happiness or at least true happiness. My negative emotions are put at 200% while my positive emotions are put at 15%. I cant do anything. No matter how much I complain, cry, scream, hide, it wont go away. It doesnt help that Im home sick (Im a dorm student in a boarding school and family means a lot to me) I cant say anything because Ive been raised to bottle it up otherwise Id bother the people around me, and I feel as though I cant receive any proper help because I lash out or feel annoyed when someone offers me advice even though theyre just trying to help. I want this to stop. This is so hard and I dont want to keep living like this. This adds on to my already sh! tty mindset and it feels like I can just crumble into ashes at any moment. I want help. I want it so bad. But I cant have it.
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Swin
The being stuck in the middle of the ocean one hit me. Mine is often similar. But it's like your floating on you back in the middle of the ocean. You know you need to look for land, or at least stop looking at the overly bright sky. Maybe even just stop floating - get vertical and actually swim, I mean- burn you just. can't find the energy to really care.
Sure your eyes might hurt a bit, but all you can always close them for while. And the only miniscule comfort that sometimes helps is the thought that night will come eventually. So at least there might be something to prettier, or move visually interesting/stimulating/palpable, to stare at then the plane blue sky.
However, that the lighter days. When my depression gets worse it like I'm suspected in the depths. Everything is heavy and you can't get any sense of direction, should you have enough wherewithal to wonder.
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The being stuck in the middle of the ocean one hit me. Mine is often similar. But it's like your floating on you back in the middle of the ocean. You know you need to look for land, or at least stop looking at the overly bright sky. Maybe even just stop floating - get vertical and actually swim, I mean- burn you just. can't find the energy to really care.
Sure your eyes might hurt a bit, but all you can always close them for while. And the only miniscule comfort that sometimes helps is the thought that night will come eventually. So at least there might be something to prettier, or move visually interesting/stimulating/palpable, to stare at then the plane blue sky.
However, that the lighter days. When my depression gets worse it like I'm suspected in the depths. Everything is heavy and you can't get any sense of direction, should you have enough wherewithal to wonder.
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Adrimar
Depression feels like pitch darkness on a sunny day. Its like a human shadow that comes to sneer at you in the darkness of the night, cowering over you while you cry in silence in a corner, but crying doesnt relieve any sadness and brings no comfort.
Its as scary as a visit from a serial killer whos kidnapped you in a dark cold basement, not knowing what to do or say, not knowing if it would be better to kill yourself or continue living in the dark choking pain. Its presence terrifies you cold despite the heavy blankets and soft pillows.
I once went through depression for a very short time, but its still very scary to kind about back then. I cant imagine what its like for people with chronic depression or anyone really, who has to go through this regularly. This is my personal experience.
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Depression feels like pitch darkness on a sunny day. Its like a human shadow that comes to sneer at you in the darkness of the night, cowering over you while you cry in silence in a corner, but crying doesnt relieve any sadness and brings no comfort.
Its as scary as a visit from a serial killer whos kidnapped you in a dark cold basement, not knowing what to do or say, not knowing if it would be better to kill yourself or continue living in the dark choking pain. Its presence terrifies you cold despite the heavy blankets and soft pillows.
I once went through depression for a very short time, but its still very scary to kind about back then. I cant imagine what its like for people with chronic depression or anyone really, who has to go through this regularly. This is my personal experience.
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Cass
it feels as if even though you are surrounded by friends and family that love you, you are still lonely and space out hearing nothing. like you are weighed down by everything and no matter what you do you are always exhausted and tired physically and emotionally. as if you can never find a way to get to the other emotions you want like everyday is a repeat of each other and you are just numb but every once in a while there is a thought from no where reminding you you could never get that happiness you wanted and never will like a black hole over your heart swallowing it up. losing interest in everything and not having any social battery at all making everyone leave and just make the crushing pain worse forcing me to cry for hours
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it feels as if even though you are surrounded by friends and family that love you, you are still lonely and space out hearing nothing. like you are weighed down by everything and no matter what you do you are always exhausted and tired physically and emotionally. as if you can never find a way to get to the other emotions you want like everyday is a repeat of each other and you are just numb but every once in a while there is a thought from no where reminding you you could never get that happiness you wanted and never will like a black hole over your heart swallowing it up. losing interest in everything and not having any social battery at all making everyone leave and just make the crushing pain worse forcing me to cry for hours
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MultiSenhor
It is like trying to run underwater was the one I liked the most, because it can resonate very quickly with both people who have depression and those who don't, as it is not hard to imagine.
It is like suffocating, not being able to move, and having some outside weight pressing against you, and it is also pretty cold and tiresome, and dark, and you go nowhere.
And the analogy is also quite optimistic if you think that instead of running, you can learn to swim, that is, you can act differently to perform better under different conditions.
You can't swim on land very efficiently, not can you run underwater very efficiently, but you can learn to adequate to the situation better and slowly get out of it.
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It is like trying to run underwater was the one I liked the most, because it can resonate very quickly with both people who have depression and those who don't, as it is not hard to imagine.
It is like suffocating, not being able to move, and having some outside weight pressing against you, and it is also pretty cold and tiresome, and dark, and you go nowhere.
And the analogy is also quite optimistic if you think that instead of running, you can learn to swim, that is, you can act differently to perform better under different conditions.
You can't swim on land very efficiently, not can you run underwater very efficiently, but you can learn to adequate to the situation better and slowly get out of it.
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Awesomeness
It feels empty. It feels like something is weighing on your chest and no matter how hard I try, I cannot feel happy. I cannot enjoy anything. The things that I loved have no meaning anymore. Its like a dark pit and you can see the light but no matter how hard you struggle, you cannot get out of that pit. All you can do is curl up in a corner and cry while seeing other people being happy and trying to feel that emotion, trying to lift your face up into a cheerful smile but failing again again. Its like the past is catching up to me and I can do nothing to outrun it. Like there is no stamina left in my body for me to outrun it.
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It feels empty. It feels like something is weighing on your chest and no matter how hard I try, I cannot feel happy. I cannot enjoy anything. The things that I loved have no meaning anymore. Its like a dark pit and you can see the light but no matter how hard you struggle, you cannot get out of that pit. All you can do is curl up in a corner and cry while seeing other people being happy and trying to feel that emotion, trying to lift your face up into a cheerful smile but failing again again. Its like the past is catching up to me and I can do nothing to outrun it. Like there is no stamina left in my body for me to outrun it.
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Aiden
I know most people wont see this knowing how long ago this was made but, it feels like everytime you try to be happy by thinking of good thoughts like having fun at the beach, going on roller coasters and just feeling loved in general but you can drown, fall off and potentially lose your life but this ones the hardest one to take on thinking about and as a youngest child knowing this day will come scares me, its the thought of everyone dead my friends, family and its the feeling of not having anything to live for its like having a weight on your shoulders and heart constantly hitting and straining you.
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I know most people wont see this knowing how long ago this was made but, it feels like everytime you try to be happy by thinking of good thoughts like having fun at the beach, going on roller coasters and just feeling loved in general but you can drown, fall off and potentially lose your life but this ones the hardest one to take on thinking about and as a youngest child knowing this day will come scares me, its the thought of everyone dead my friends, family and its the feeling of not having anything to live for its like having a weight on your shoulders and heart constantly hitting and straining you.
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Sleekie
Depression is a lot of weight. It's a cage. feels like you're slowly fading away you. don't like the idea but then again you feel you're not appreciated enough so why not. it's draining. seeing others suffer is your only source of happiness for some reason. you feel empty. unloved. anxious. numb. psycho. can't relate proper. overthink at everything. love sleeping cause it's the only time you're at peace. anti creative and it hurts. you feel the world don't need you. your existence looks like a mistake. you hate your life. people dont understand the magnitude of what you go through so they hate you.
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Depression is a lot of weight. It's a cage. feels like you're slowly fading away you. don't like the idea but then again you feel you're not appreciated enough so why not. it's draining. seeing others suffer is your only source of happiness for some reason. you feel empty. unloved. anxious. numb. psycho. can't relate proper. overthink at everything. love sleeping cause it's the only time you're at peace. anti creative and it hurts. you feel the world don't need you. your existence looks like a mistake. you hate your life. people dont understand the magnitude of what you go through so they hate you.
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Sleekie
Depression is a lot of weight. It's a cage. feels like you're slowly fading away you. don't like the idea but then again you feel you're not appreciated enough so why not. it's draining. seeing others suffer is your only source of happiness for some reason. you feel empty. unloved. anxious. numb. psycho. can't relate proper. overthink at everything. love sleeping cause it's the only time you're at peace. anti creative and it hurts. you feel the world don't need you. your existence looks like a mistake. you hate your life. people dont understand the magnitude of what you go through so they hate you.
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Depression is a lot of weight. It's a cage. feels like you're slowly fading away you. don't like the idea but then again you feel you're not appreciated enough so why not. it's draining. seeing others suffer is your only source of happiness for some reason. you feel empty. unloved. anxious. numb. psycho. can't relate proper. overthink at everything. love sleeping cause it's the only time you're at peace. anti creative and it hurts. you feel the world don't need you. your existence looks like a mistake. you hate your life. people dont understand the magnitude of what you go through so they hate you.
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Lydia-_
you tired all the time, you have voices in your head, your trapped in a cage trying to get out and you get so close to getting out but you mess up you keep trying to get out but you never can the only way to get out is finding happieness but you cant find it and you think oh someone will come save me, but nobody does, and your feeling like your starting to lose it, because you feel nothing anymore your empty, and alll you do is make others happy becuase if you cant be happy then just make others. right?
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you tired all the time, you have voices in your head, your trapped in a cage trying to get out and you get so close to getting out but you mess up you keep trying to get out but you never can the only way to get out is finding happieness but you cant find it and you think oh someone will come save me, but nobody does, and your feeling like your starting to lose it, because you feel nothing anymore your empty, and alll you do is make others happy becuase if you cant be happy then just make others. right?
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Yo
It feels like you're stuck, like of course I mean stuck in your life but also at the same time it feels like everything else in your life has also come to a halt. I still remember when I was still going through it, my house was under renovation and even though logically I knew it would be completed in a few months, it felt like it was going to stay like that forever i. e. under renovation forever. Idk how to explain this but life had literally kind of stopped for me
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It feels like you're stuck, like of course I mean stuck in your life but also at the same time it feels like everything else in your life has also come to a halt. I still remember when I was still going through it, my house was under renovation and even though logically I knew it would be completed in a few months, it felt like it was going to stay like that forever i. e. under renovation forever. Idk how to explain this but life had literally kind of stopped for me
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Cy
I've been in depression since I was 7yo, 1957. Because it's been most of my life I have little positive feelings to refer to. I didn't understand what love is until I was 45yo. I've recently gotten TMS treatments and am free of this horrible condition. Now I'm working on reconstructing my whole identity. At 72yo I had no other base of response to the world except depression. Everything I was was a result of the 7 things depression makes you do from that same video.
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I've been in depression since I was 7yo, 1957. Because it's been most of my life I have little positive feelings to refer to. I didn't understand what love is until I was 45yo. I've recently gotten TMS treatments and am free of this horrible condition. Now I'm working on reconstructing my whole identity. At 72yo I had no other base of response to the world except depression. Everything I was was a result of the 7 things depression makes you do from that same video.
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smolsuko
I always viewed depression as I am a jar, empty and cracked, whereas most people are filled with sweets, and love and sugar. My jar feels half empty some days, others completely empty. There's that one person who's almost like a candy store clerk, that refills your jar but the second they're gone you have zero sweetness left, and only a cavity as a reminder of the ache you feel trying to fit in.
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I always viewed depression as I am a jar, empty and cracked, whereas most people are filled with sweets, and love and sugar. My jar feels half empty some days, others completely empty. There's that one person who's almost like a candy store clerk, that refills your jar but the second they're gone you have zero sweetness left, and only a cavity as a reminder of the ache you feel trying to fit in.
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Rtxt
I feel like im the person no one wants to be with and if somone wants to be with me it means that person is showing mercy on me and that heart me even more i feel little safe only when i m alone in my room my mind keep telling me that everyone talking (negative ) about me im trying to manage it for years but now i think the only way is suicide dont take my name too serious because im totally broken
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I feel like im the person no one wants to be with and if somone wants to be with me it means that person is showing mercy on me and that heart me even more i feel little safe only when i m alone in my room my mind keep telling me that everyone talking (negative ) about me im trying to manage it for years but now i think the only way is suicide dont take my name too serious because im totally broken
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hayat
The most beautiful and positive thing I ve heard about depression is: a depressed person is just in a deep rest. It's something negative that carries, strangely, positive effects to the soul. If you are depressed, just accept it and let it go. It's only a period in your life that will change many things in you, sooner or later, you will go back to normal but with a different you.
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The most beautiful and positive thing I ve heard about depression is: a depressed person is just in a deep rest. It's something negative that carries, strangely, positive effects to the soul. If you are depressed, just accept it and let it go. It's only a period in your life that will change many things in you, sooner or later, you will go back to normal but with a different you.
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Compequiet05
Prison without bars, the ocean waves, black holes, chest pain, dementors and mist are so accurate. First two are my favourite. Love these interpretations.
To me, I'd like to think of Depression as, some kind of a shadow, or an invisible shield that shooes people away from you, and it prevents me from blending in. No matter what it is, I can't belong.
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Prison without bars, the ocean waves, black holes, chest pain, dementors and mist are so accurate. First two are my favourite. Love these interpretations.
To me, I'd like to think of Depression as, some kind of a shadow, or an invisible shield that shooes people away from you, and it prevents me from blending in. No matter what it is, I can't belong.
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Abdool
Its like being dead while living. Anything that would normally be funny, loved etc becomes nothing. It doesnt make you laugh & you get no emotion from things you might love. You feel literally nothing and seek anything to make you feel again. Youll listen to songs etc which dont even help the situation like suicidal thoughts by Biggie Smalls.
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Its like being dead while living. Anything that would normally be funny, loved etc becomes nothing. It doesnt make you laugh & you get no emotion from things you might love. You feel literally nothing and seek anything to make you feel again. Youll listen to songs etc which dont even help the situation like suicidal thoughts by Biggie Smalls.
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psych2go
it feels like u're stuck in a nightmare u try ur best to wake up but it never wo4ks and then after a long time of trying u're finally exhausted completely unable to move u give up u accept u're newself at this point even explaining how u feel is tiring u can barely breath and stay focused it's almost like watching u're self drown slowly
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it feels like u're stuck in a nightmare u try ur best to wake up but it never wo4ks and then after a long time of trying u're finally exhausted completely unable to move u give up u accept u're newself at this point even explaining how u feel is tiring u can barely breath and stay focused it's almost like watching u're self drown slowly
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Anna
Im in a room without a roof or wals, its all wite and empty and no matter in what direction i walk i will never come out of there. It feels like im holding my breath. I am breathing but i cant breathe. I feel constantly down, sad, mad and it feels like it will never get better. I still dont think it ever will.
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Im in a room without a roof or wals, its all wite and empty and no matter in what direction i walk i will never come out of there. It feels like im holding my breath. I am breathing but i cant breathe. I feel constantly down, sad, mad and it feels like it will never get better. I still dont think it ever will.
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Nuggie_Product
I think of my depression as a toxic relationship. Every time I try to do something to make you happy they or it takes it away and gives me something that makes me sad and depressed even more. Or they or it puts bad thoughts in my head when I try to make good thoughts and it ruins me and my childhood.
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I think of my depression as a toxic relationship. Every time I try to do something to make you happy they or it takes it away and gives me something that makes me sad and depressed even more. Or they or it puts bad thoughts in my head when I try to make good thoughts and it ruins me and my childhood.
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Poisonkinelle
#6 (1: 33) its like the waves of the ocean, sometimes the waves recede and you see the beautiful sand with the pretty sea shells, soon the tide will come and swallow all that beauty up and drag it away from you. What helped me fight that feeling is knowing that the waves will recede again.
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#6 (1: 33) its like the waves of the ocean, sometimes the waves recede and you see the beautiful sand with the pretty sea shells, soon the tide will come and swallow all that beauty up and drag it away from you. What helped me fight that feeling is knowing that the waves will recede again.
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charlie
For me Depression is like a deep Holl that you cannot see the lite in the world and you fell Hopples, but someone saved me from that Holl and showed me what the world is a happy place and mad me happy but now I back in that Holl and I want to see the lite but all I see is black
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For me Depression is like a deep Holl that you cannot see the lite in the world and you fell Hopples, but someone saved me from that Holl and showed me what the world is a happy place and mad me happy but now I back in that Holl and I want to see the lite but all I see is black
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